Bandura developed what famously became known ... In operant conditioning, coined by B.F. Skinner, we learn through reinforcement or punishment. We avoid touching a pot of boiling water, for ...

In a 2002 issue of the General Review of Psychology, Bandura was ranked the fourth “most eminent psychologist of the 20th century” behind B. F. Skinner, Jean Piaget and Sigmund Freud.

This concept plays a central role in Bandura's social learning theory ... itself Previous theories of learning, such as B.F. Skinner's theory of operant conditioning, argued that the environment ...