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Social learning according to Albert Bandura. Published in: Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2024, Research Starters By: Wulfert, Edelgard Albert Bandura's social learning theory, later called social cognitive theory, provides a theoretical framework for understanding and explaining human behavior; the theory embraces an interactional model of causation and accords central roles to cognitive, vicarious, and self- regulatory processes. TYPE OF PSYCHOLOGY: Personality Introduction Social learning theory , later amplified as social cognitive theory by its founder, social psychologist Albert Bandura , provides a unified theoretical framework for analyzing the psychological processes that govern human behavior. Its goal is to explain how behavior develops, how it is maintained, and through what processes it can be modified. It seeks to accomplish this by identifying the determinants of human action and the mechanisms through which they operate. Bandura laid out the conceptual framework of his approach in his book Social Learning Theory (1977). His theory is based on a model of reciprocal determinism. Bandura rejected both the humanist and existentialist position viewing people as free Low specific agents and the behaviorist position viewing behavior as weight Center of mass controlled by the environment. Rather, external determinants High specific weight of behavior (such as rewards and punishments) and internal Bobo doll 1. Inside Bobo doll. determinants (such as thoughts, expectations, motivation, and By User:DMY (User:DMY) beliefs) are considered part of a system of interlocking [GFDL determinants that influence not only behavior but also the (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 various other parts of the system. In other words, each part of (http://creativecommons.org/licens/system-behavior, cognition, and environmental influences sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons -affects each of the other parts. People are neither free agents nor passive reactors to external pressures. Instead, through self-regulatory processes, they have the ability to exercise some measure of control