Social cognitive theory

Albert Bandura

pp. 216-227

in: Ray Colledge, Mastering counselling theory, Berlin, Springer, 2002

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.