Question

Explain how Bandura conceptualizes the mechanisms of development. (Please explain with simple words.)

Answer 1

Social cognitive learning theory is a theoretical model of human behavior and is a major contribution to the social and behavioral sciences developed by Albert Bandura. Social cognitive learning theory states that individuals are active agents in their development, not simply passive observers.
According to bandura, there is a dynamic, continuous interrelationship between an individual’s behaviors, the environment, and intrapersonal factors (i.e., cognitive, affective, and biological events) during development. The determinants of behavior as well as the dynamic conditions that can change behavior over time.
Eduactional system have undergone fundamental change during historical periods of cultural and technological transitions. Educational systems were originally designed to teach low-level skills in agricultural societies. When industrialization supplanted agriculture as the major economic enterprise, the educational system was adapted for the needs of heavy industry and manufacturing. Most of the occupational pursuits required rote performance without many cognitive skills. Increasing complexities in technologies, social systems, and the international economy present different realities demanding new types of competencies. In the modern workplace, sweeping changes in technologies are mechanizing many of the everyday transactions and activities that were formerly done manually. In contemporary production systems, people manage computer-controlled machines that perform most of the routine work. We retool our production machines by changing the computer software. We design and test things using computer graphics and thus do not have to construct prototypes. The offices of today are run, in large part, by computerized information-management systems. New technologies are displacing traditional jobs even in the delivery of services. We bank with automatic tellers, talk to operator less recording machines that shepherd us through tortuous paths, and pump gas from computerized equipment monitored by a single person sitting in a booth. Bar code scanners tied to automated inventory management systems reorder merchandise without requiring inventory clerks and purchasing agents. Many workers have been displaced by automation.