앨버트 반두라

소개

앨버트 반두라(Albert Bandura, 1925년 12월 4일 - 2021년 7월 26일)는 미국의 심리학자로 사회학습이론의 주창자이며 현대 교육심리학 분야의 석학이다. 아이오와대학교 시절 학습이론가인 스펜스(Kenneth Spence)의 영향을 받아 행동수정이론·관찰학습·자기효능 등에 관해 연구하였다. 보보인형 실험(Bobo doll experience)으로 유명하다.

Albert Bandura was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology, and influenced the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology. Bandura also is known as the originator of social learning theory, social cognitive theory, and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy. He was responsible for the theoretically influential Bobo doll experiment (1961), which demonstrated the conceptual validity of observational learning, wherein children would observe an adult act either aggressively or neutrally toward a doll, and, having learned through observation, were more likely to also beat the doll if they had witnessed the aggressive behavior.