Bandura's Personal Construct Theory: Personal Analysis

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In the past, I usually felt confusing why I think like that and why I do things in this way. Therefore, in this essay, I am going to analyze my personality. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory and Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory are the first two theories came to my mind. The concepts of these theories can explain my thinking and behavior and also its can provide the answers to my questions about my personality.
Social Learning Theory
The first theory, I used to inspect my personal that is Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. This theory has advanced the social cognitive perspective of personality. There are few main concepts of this theory include reciprocal determinism, observational learning and modeling, and self-regulation. His theory emphasizes modeling as a way of learning by observing others and criticizes cultures for providing inappropriate models such as aggression. In his theory, Bandura assumes that people learn from one another, via observation, and imitation and modeling.
The reciprocal determinism not only posits that people learn from others through others’ behaviors, attitudes and outcomes of those behaviors, but it also indicates the interacting mutual influences of the person, the environment and the behavior. According to reciprocal determinism, the environment affects the person and the behavior; the person also affects the environment and the behavior; also the behavior affects the other two.
Observation learning and is the process influencing learning,