Brief history of Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925, in Canada. Bandura attended the only school in his town and he said "The students had to take charge of their own education." Bandura's career into psychology was by accident, he was looking for "filler classes" and decided to take psychology. After that, he became very interested and switched from his original major, biological sciences.

After graduating from the University of British Columbia in only three years, Bandura went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa. 
Bandura earned his M.A. degree in 1951 and his Ph.D in 1952. 

Bandura's social learning theory focused its attention on observational learning, imitation, and modeling. Click here to watch a short video about the social learning theory. 
Bandura's famous experiment was the 1961 Bobo Doll Study. 

 Bandura's work is considered part of the cognitive "revolution" in psychology. His theories have had a large impact on personality psychology, psychotherapy, and cognitive psychology.

After Bandura earned his Ph. D degree he was offered a position at Stanford University and he continues to work at Stanford to this day.