The main idea in class today was based on a theorist named Albert Bandura. He was an observational theorist who believed that children learn through observation. I have to agree with his reciprocal determinism model of learning, where everything in the model affects one another. It's true that ones actions affects their behaviour which affects the people surrounding them. For example, which was given by two young ladies in class today, Bill Gates came up with the idea of Microsoft which created word processing which benefited a lot of people. This created a much fast for efficient way of writing which leads to less time anxiety and an increase in a persons behaviour.
His idea of observational learning is one thing I believe mostly about. The only way I truly learn something is if I actually see it happen. For example, my parents told me that when I was younger not to play up on the counters because it's dangerous. Apparently I didn't grasp the idea until one day I actually fell of the counter and ended up with a goose egg on my head. I still laugh today when I see the picture of me at a wedding with a big goose egg. Another example is that I slow down in winter while driving. I use to do fish tails with my friends all the time until one day I was riding with my friend and we fished tailed and the passenger side of the car ran into a welding truck. Scariest time of my life! Even though I wasn't driving I observed what happens when fish tailing.
So in conclusion I believe Bandura's ideas are a powerful way of explaining a way of learning.
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