Cognitive Theories

•Focus on the Thought Processes and Sensory Input methods

•Established by Albert Bandura

Neuro-Physiological Theories

•Focus on the actual physiological methods that

occurs in the brain as a human being is taught

•Established by Donald Hebb

Life story of Albert Bandura

Started to Study what Affects Social Behavior

Bandura’s Analysis on Conditioning Theories

Established a Complete Theory in Observational Learning

Bandura’s Analysis of

Observational Learning

Empirical Explanation

Reinforcement as a

Performance Variable

Processes of Controlling Observational LearningAttentional ProcessesRetentional ProcessesBehavioral Production Processes Motivational Processes

Reciprocal DeterminismSelf-Regulation of Behavior Moral ConductDeterminism versus Freedom

Figure 3. Overview of social cognitive theory and of self-efficacy.(2002). Source: Pajares from emory.edu

TV and MediaThe Advancement in Faulty Cognitive ProcessesIts Relationship to Anti-Social BehaviorTriggers to Criminal Behavior

LearningObservational Learning in the SchoolThe Function of MotivationIndication of Performance

Decided to be a writer and different from his physicist parents

Age 33, a Member of the Montreal Neurological Institute

Basis for Absent StimulationDeterioration and HallucinationsEarliest Non-American to Receive

APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Honor

Received an Honor for Canadian Scientists Named after Him

Heuristic Model of PsychologyBrain is not a “Switch Board” and does not

Operate as an Entire UnitBrain does not Need to be Whole to OperateCell Assembly & Phase Sequence – Major

InstrumentsEarliest to Link this SchemeHeuristic Influences are still Applied at present

Environments Restricted Enriched

Cell assemblies Phase Sequences

Memory Short-Term Long-Term

Consolidation and the Brain Declarative Procedural

Neuroscientific Research Hebbian Rule Hebbian Synapse Neurophysiology Neuroscience

Current Technology Engineering Robotics Computer Science

Education 2 Kinds of Learning

Cognitive and Neuro-Physiological Theories Equally Correspond to Developments in Earlier Models Transforms the Way People See the EnvironmentDevelopments in the Field of Medicine

Effect of Developments in Teaching Processes and Health Care

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