Ankita Parkhad

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

  Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words- Alfred Binet Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who was known for his first practical IQ test, the Binet- Simon test. In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked Alfred Binet to make an instrument for students who did not learn effectively from regular classroom structure so that they could give them remedial classes. In collaboration with Theodore Simon, Binet published revisions of his test in 1908 and 1911. After graduating from law school in 1878, Binnet planned to follow his father as he was a physiologist and enrolled in medical school. He began to study science at Sorbonne but soon began educating himself in psychology by reading works of individuals such as Charles darwin and John Stuart Mill. After being fascinated by the work of Jean-Martin Charcot on hypnosis, Binet abandoned a law career in 1878 to devote himself to Medico-scientific studies at the hospital, wher

When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves - Victor E. Frankl Victor Frankl, an Australian Psychiatrist and psychotherapist developed a psychology theory of logotherapy (healing though the meaning). Frankl’s primary motivation for developing a theory was to help individuals make meaning in life and the primary purpose of psychotherapy was to help individuals find that meaning. In 1942, Frankl and his parents, wife, and brother were arrested and sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp. They spent three years in four concentration camps. Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, Kaufering III, and Türkheim. He lost his father in the Terezín Ghetto, his brother and mother at Auschwitz, and his wife in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His sister, Stella, escaped to Australia. He was ruined and came back to Vienna and found that nothing left of his life he once knew and the people he loved. To prevent suicide attempts, Frankl and others tried to help ot