Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Brian G. Smith, Ph.D.
Lesson 9 - Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory
 

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The assessments in this course are patterned after the Praxis II, Principles of Learning and Teaching tests required for licensure

Case Study - Lesson 9

Case studies are a very important part of this course of study. You may run through these scenarios an unlimited number of times. If you make errors, you will be referred to the appropriate area of the book, or an appropriate website.  The questions will be narrative, constructed responses to the issues in the study.   Upon submission of your answers, each of the narrative responses will have professionally written feedback of an ideal answer.  Carefully compare this to your answer to determine correctness There is a score associated with each case study but that score will not be recorded.  You will be given credit for participation.

  

Quiz - Lesson 9

You will have to take a quiz for each of the lessons. You have two opportunities to take each quiz.  The highest score will be recorded in the grade book.   Each of the quizzes will be multiple choice & true/false, open-book, open-notes.  Upon submitting each quiz, your quiz score as well as any items answered incorrectly will be available.
     

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Grand Round Application - Lesson 9

Each lesson of this course will also require you to continue to work on the Grand Round project in this course.  Click on the assignment link below to go to the document that outlines the assignment for this lesson.  As you complete each lesson's Grand Round assignment, you will be completing that portion of the final project.  Each lesson will provide specific directions for how to turn in that portion of the Grand Round project.

 

Learning Profiles - Lesson 9

Each lesson in this course will have a Special Education topic  associated with it.  Click on the link below to go to the content of the topic.  Each of the Special Education topics was specifically chosen to complement the psychology topic.  There will be Special Education items on each lesson's quiz. 

Presentation of Theoretical Construct

Readings: Chapter 9

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Lecture Outline:

Albert Bandura is a cognitive psychologist at Stanford University and has had some of the most famous research projects in popular culture.  While still in graduate school in Iowa, he began his career looking at how people learn from observations as well as experience.  In his early writing, he attempted to focus on separating the acquisition of new knowledge and the performance of new knowledge, a profound and subtle change from traditional behaviorist views of learning.  One of his earliest and most famous projects was the "Bobo Experiment" where he demonstrated that children can learn aggressive behavior from watching aggressive children and characters in film media.  It was a study that I suppose ultimately lead to television decency rules, and movies ratings. 

The following links are for aspects of his Social Learning Theory that are particularly important to future educators. 

Types of Learning

Observational Learning Process

Social Learning Theory in the Classroom