Inspiration of Bandura's Social Learning Theory to Adult Education

Bandura, the founder of Social Learning Theory, makes a great contribution to human behavioral studies by integrating learning psychology with social psychology. His theory regards social learning as a combination of cognition and behavior, thus he lays an emphasis on the influence of social factors on learning, This paper highlights Bandura's Social Learning Theory from three aspects: observational learning, environmental interaction, self-efficacy, which are then employed to discuss adult learning behavior discrepancies. Inspiration of Bandura's Theory to adult learning is finally summarized.