ABSTRACT

Title: SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY BY ALBERT BANDURA AS

PERCIEVED BY City Social Welfare and Development

Office
1. Total Number of Pages
Total Number of Words
2. Author:

Cambonga

: 61
:8,018
,

Jay

(Last Name)

(First Name)

Cagaanan,

John Mark

(Last Name)

(First Name)

E.____
(Middle Name)

G.____

(Middle Name)

3. Type of Document
: Thesis
4. Type of Publication
: Unpublished
5. Host Institution
: PEN Cagayan de Oro College
Address of Institution
: Cagayan de Oro City
Region
: 10
6. Sponsor for Funded Research:N/A
7. Keywords
:
Social
Learning
Theory,
CSWD,
Albert Bandura

8. Abstract
Summary

The study attempted to assess the perception of the

City Social Welfare Development of Cagayan de Oro City in
relation to their perception on the Social Learning Theory
of

Albert

Bandura

in

terms

of

Attention,

Retention,

Motivation and Reproduction.

Hereafter, the term City Social Welfare Development of
Cagayan de Oro City will be simply called CSWD.
To achieve the objectives, three specific problems were
formulated namely:
1. What is the demographic profile of the respondents in
terms

of:

age,

gender,

educational

attainment

and

religion of the respondents?

2. What is the perception of the CSWD personnel of Cagayan
de Oro on the Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura
in

terms

of

attention,

retention,

motivation

and

reproduction?
3. Is there a significant difference on the perceptions of
the clients on the affecting their perception when they
are grouped according to their demographic profile.

Methodology

The

study

made

use

if

the

descriptive

method

of

research believed to appropriate in generating the desired

information needed in putting the problem to empirical test.
This study assesses the perception of the clients in
line with the perception of CSWD personnel and is used as
the basis for cross-sectional survey research design. It
revolved around the gathering of pieces of evidence on the
assessment

of

the

perception

of

CSWD

perceptions

of

the

personnel

in

terms

clients
of

on

the

attention,

retention, motivation and reproduction.

Thus, acquired data which represented the conditions
existing

at

translated

the
into

time
clear

of

the
and

study

were

documented

understandable

form

and

after

undergoing statistical treatment.

Findings
The following results were revealed after analyzing the
data:
1. Based on the study, data shows that the biggest number
of the respondents was the students who were 25-30
years old with forty three(43) respondents or 86% of
them belonged to this age group. There were also 5 or
10% who were from the 31-35

age range respondents.

The least of the groups were the 2 respondents or 4%

who comprised the 36-above age group
2. Out 50, there were 27 females or 54% and 23 or 46% of
them were males. This study revealed the dominance of
female among the respondents.
3. 82% of respondents or 41% of them belonged to college
graduate. There were also 4 or 8 % of the respondents
who are elementary graduates 2 respondents for both
with 4% each for elementary and high school undergrad
4. Data shows that the largest religious sector of most of
the respondents were Roman Catholic covering 72% or 36
out

of

Iglesia

50
ni

respondents.
Cristo,

The

Born

other
Again

religious

sector;

and

have

IFI

respondents each or 34% of student-respondents. Only 1

respondent from Dating Daan and other religious sectors
covering 2 % each respectively.
5. More of the respondents (60%) answered excellent to the
items on attention while 38 % of them responded very
satisfactory. Only one respondent assessed poor. The
overall mean for these indicators is 4.57 which is
described as excellent. While the overall mean implies
excellent, the respondents assessed attention as a
factory of observational theory as very satisfactory.
6. On the parameters of retention, It shows that 52% of
the

respondents

assessed

retention

as

very

satisfactory. They were able to clearly articulate the

values, and importance of attitude being retained by
the child. About 24% of the respondents strongly agree
on the importance of retention when caring for a child.
About 16 % doesnt have a clear stand or is neutral on
the importance of retention in observation theory and
8% doesnt agree on the importance of retention as a
meditating factor.
7. An almost equal of response from the 52% and 46% of the
respondents
percentages

on

the

factor

describes

as

of

motivation.

excellent

These
and

two

very

satisfactory respectively. Only 2% assessed poor and

strongly

disagree

that

motivation

is

important

in

rearing a child.
8. When respondents are grouped according to age, gender,
educational

attainment

and

significant

difference

on

religion,
the

there

perception

of

was

no

social

workers on The Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandora

in the variables; Attention, Retention, Motivation and
Reproduction. The hypothesis is not rejected.
Conclusions
A strength of social learning theory is that it takes
into account the cognitive processes involvedin learning
(i.e. attention, retention, motivation, etc.). This means

that as an approach, it is less reductionist than other

approaches

such

as

the

cognitive

and

behaviorist

approaches. It also uses the experimental method, which

makes it more scientific and respectable as a theory. The
results

of

different

experiments

and

studies

have

had

practical applications: for example, it has helped us to

understand the role that violence in the media can have on
children.

However,

social

learning

theory

has

been

criticized for not taking into enough consideration the

role that biology (e.g. genetics) may have on behavior. It
also

doesnt

between
ideas

take

people:

of

what

for

into

account

example,

reinforcement

individual

people
consists

may

differences

have

of.

different

Lastly,

this

theory cant explain all behavior. Some people maybecome

criminals even though theyve never been exposed to or
observed criminal behavior, directly or indirectly.
Recommendations
Based on the conclusions, the researchers came up with
the following recommendations:
1. Criminology Department:
Specialized training for

students

of

Criminology,

including seminars and trainings can be adopted by the

department to give awareness to their students on the
situation of a child under social welfare and how they

could help incorporate learning as their role in the

community
2. City Social Welfare Division
The City Social Welfare Division, based on this
research can make new policies regarding social work
or can also refined their existing policies to make
a more effective and efficient service.
3. To Future Researchers:
Future
determine

researchers
the

effectiveness

other
that

may

conduct

predictor

makes

the

another
and

program

study

to

check

the

service

more

efficient. They may also conduct the same study using

different variables; this time around, researchers can
include foster parents on the study.