Albert Bandura, an American psychologist born in Canada and originator of social cognitive theory is no doubt best known for his modeling study on aggression, referred to as the ‘Bobo doll experiment, which indicates that children can learn behavior through the observation of adults. After passing high school in 1946, Bandura attended a bachelor’s degree at the University of British Columbia and in 1949 graduated with the Bolocon Award in psychology, annually awarded to the outstanding student in psychology. He then did graduate work at the University of Iowa, where he received a master's degree in psychology and a doctorate in clinical psychology. Bandura was the first one to describe that self-efficacy meaning the belief in one’s own capabilities, has an effect on what individuals choose to do, the amount of effort they put into doing it, and the way they feel as they are doing it. Bandura also discovered that learning occurs through those beliefs and through social modeling whic
Wilhelm Wundt (born on August 16, 1832, in Germany), was a German physiologist and psychologist who is generally known as the father of experimental psychology and the founder of the world’s first psychology laboratory established in Leipzig, Germany in 1879. Wundt is often associated with the school of thought called structuralism. Although it was his student Edward B. Titchner who was truly responsible for the set up of that school of psychology. He has written approximately 53000 pages, including articles on animal and human physiology, poisons, visions, spiritualism, hypnotism, history and politics, linguistics, religion, and ethics. In 1856, Wundt earned a medical degree at the University of Heidelberg. After studying briefly with Johannes Muller, he was appointed lecturer in physiology at the University of Heidelberg where in 1858 he became lecturer in physiology at the University of Heidelberg, where is 1858 he became an assistant to the Physicist and Physiologist Hermann von He