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Albert Bandura was born on December 4, 1925, in a small Canadian town located approximately 50 miles from Edmonton
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He earned his degree from the University of British Columbia in 1949 after just three years of study and then went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa.
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Bandura earned his MA degree in 1951 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1952.
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He began working at Stanford in 1953 and has continued to work at the university to this day
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His first professional publication was a 1953 paper titled "'Primary' and 'Secondary' Suggestibility" that appeared in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology.
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In 1974, Bandura was elected president of the American Psychological Association.
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His 1977 book Social Learning Theory presented the basics of his theory of how people learn through observation and modeling.
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In 2014, Bandura was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Barack Obama.
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