Albert Bandura Quotes

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

There's no question that aggression can be learned through modeling. When a child sees her parent behave in a particular way, she may be tempted or even rewarded for being that way.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Children learn what they live.

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

We always seem to be a bit surprised that our children are reflecting stuff that we are showing them. I don't know about you, but every movie that I saw when I was a kid, I emulated. I was Haley Mills for an entire summer and had an English accent.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Children want to do what grownups do.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

I think children learn through their parents.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.