Brief biography, Albert Bandura

     Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925, in the small town of Mundare southern Alberta, Canada. He went to primary and secondary schools that are simple, but with average results are very satisfactory. After finishing high school, he worked at the company's road excavation Alaska Highway in Yukon.

     He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of British of Columbia in 1949. Then he entered the University of Iowa, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1952. Only after that he became very influential in the behaviorist tradition and learning theory.

     When he Iowa, he met Virginia Varns, a nursing school instructor. They later married and had two daughters. After graduation, he menerukan education to post-doctoral level in the Wichita Guidance Center in Wichita, Kansas.

     In 1953, he began teaching at Stanford University. Here, he then worked with one of his proteges, Richard Walters. The first book titled the results of their cooperation Adolescent Aggression, published in 1959. Unfortunately, Walters died young due to a motorcycle accident.

Bandura became president of the APA in 1973, and received APA Award for his services in the Distinguished Scientific Contributions 1980.

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