Social cognitive theory: Albert Bandura

Abstract

Albert Bandura was born in 1925 in Alberta, Canada. He graduated in psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1949 and received a doctorate in clinical psychology from Iowa University in 1952. He served a post-doctoral internship at Wichita Guidance Center before joining Stanford University in California as an instructor. He became a full professor in 1964 and in 1974 was awarded a chair, the David Starr Jordan Professorship of Social Science in Psychology. In the same year he became president of the American Psychological Association.