Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura (born the December 4th 1925) is a known psychologist Canadian for his theory of the social Apprentissage.

Doctor in psychology, it teaches at the University of Stanford. After being initially influenced by the current behaviorist, it was radically diverted some, by stressing the importance of the cognitive and social factors in its research. It is today one of the leaders of the current socio-cognitivist in North America. The epistemological core of its work places the individual in the middle of a triad of interactions between cognitive, behavioral and contextual factors. The social subjects seem thus at the same time the producers and the products of their environment. Within this theoretical framework, the concept of car-effectiveness becomes central. By indicating the beliefs which an individual has in his own capacities of action, whatever his objective aptitudes, it the feeling of personal effectiveness poses as bases motivation, perseverance and of most of the human achievements.

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