Albert Bandura is the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University. He is known as the originator of social learning theory (renamed the Social Cognitive Theory) and the theoretical construct of self-efficacy, and is also responsible for the influential 1961 Bobo doll experiment. The first edition of Psychological Modeling was published by Transaction Publishers in 1971.

Preface Analysis of Modeling Processes 1. Mimicry in Mynas (Gracula Religiosa): A Test of Mowrer's Theory 2. A Comparative Test of the Status Envy, Social Power and Secondary Reinforcement Theories of Identificatory Learning 3. Symbolic Coding Processes in Observational Learning 4. Influence of Models' Reinforcement Contingencies on the Acquisition of Imitative Responses 5. The Development of Imitation by Reinforcing Behavioral Similarity to a Model 6. Influence of Response Consequences to a Social Model on Resistance to Deviation 7. Imitation and Grammatical Development in Children 8. Effects of Age and Rule Familiarity on the Production of Modeled Language Constructions 9. Observationally Induced Changes in Children's Interrogative Classes Name Index Subject Index