In the Driver's Seat: Finding Motivation from Within
Finding motivation from within, in our personal and professional lives, brings greater satisfaction. Whatever other factors operate, as guides or motivators, they are rooted in the core belief that one has the power to make a change by one's actions...
Getting It Together: Behavior Therapy
Behavior therapists are interested in action-oriented techniques generally involving exposure, particularly in treating anxiety disorders. The treatment entails modeling, the assignment of tasks; joint performance with therapist if necessary; and gr...
The Enduring Self: Social-Cognitive Perspective, The
The social-cognitive perspective on personality takes into consideration the interplay between behavior, cognition and the environment. Albert Bandura shares his own background to illustrate why he sees human beings as contributors to their life cir...
The Learning Machine: Observational Learning: The Research of Albert Bandura
Observational learning is an important part of making us who we are. We are particularly attuned to the behavior of our peers-the way they talk, the clothing they wear, their tastes and values. In the 1960s research pioneer Albert Bandura and his te...
The Learning Machine: Mass Media as a Source of Observational Learning
Mass media provides potent role models that influence children, teens, and adults. Correlation studies link children's aggressive patterns of behavior with television. A diet of televised violence tends to reduce restraints over aggression, and dese...
People to People: Breeding Grounds for Violence
Violence breeds in neighborhoods where children go to sleep at night hearing gunfire. It lurks behind the closed doors of a family home in which intimate partner violence and child abuse are a way of life. Children who grow up with violence become p...