Bandura’s Theory and the Glass Castle

Introduction –The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

1. About the book:
   1. 2005 memoir of Jeannette Walls (Walls, 2006)
   2. The story of the family who chooses to live like homeless
   3. The Walls family members consist of parents Rex and Rosy walls, their three daughters: Lori Walls, Maureen and Jeannette wall and a son Brian Walls (Walls, 2006)
2. The book is divided into 5 parts
3. Depicted by the places the family used to live in
4. The Glass Castle—Metaphor for the dream house which family plans to build one day
5. Bandura’s Theory: Social Learning Theory
6. Self is a product of the interaction between
   1. Cognition
   2. Behavior
   3. Environment
7. Observation Learning: Learning occurs by observation other’s behavior (Lehman, 2018, p. 59)
8. Jeannette Walls and Social Learning Theory
9. Jeannette learned by observing the behaviors of her family
10. Living as nomads and learning from the environment
11. Choose to live a different life once grown up
12. Describe her parents with affection but tend to lie
13. Social standing
14. Jeannette Walls and Self Observation
15. Self-Observation:
16. Observing oneself and behavior to understand the performance (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 46)
17. Jeannette self-observation
18. The early life of Jeannette
19. An accident in the kitchen
20. Her father’s way of making her brother create a drama
21. Breaking into the hospital by taking Jeannette away
22. Other life incidents
23. Judgment and Character of Jeannette
24. Judgment is
    1. Comparing yourself and standards
    2. Standards for oneself and other’s expectations (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 46)
25. Jeannette tend to pretend about her family
26. Lie about their status and their work because of the standards regarding a normal family
27. Self-Response and Jeannette
28. Self-Response is making and evaluating decisions
29. Based on consequences and standards (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 46)
30. Decided to make her life better
31. Move out of her family
32. Tried to motivate her family to be in a better state
33. Family, Self-Efficacy, and Jeannette
34. Self is socially constructed through experience with the environment (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 49)
35. Family—1^st element of self-efficacy and the interaction with the environment (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 50)
    1. Different family structures creation of social references (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 50)
36. Examples from the life of Jeannette
37. How family has impacted self-efficacy of Jeannette
38. Alcoholic Father
39. Being homeless
40. Wandering and sleeping around at any place
41. Naming everything they do as an adventure
42. Conclusion- Social Learning and Jeannette
43. Learn from other people via observation and imitation
44. Jeannette learned from
45. Her family
46. The way of their living
47. Unconventional childhood in the name of adventure
48. Learning to move out the dysfunctional and poor environment

References

Lehman, M., & Ainbinder, D. (2018). Bandura’s social-cognitive learning theory. In D. Ainbinder & S. Unger (Eds.), Dialogues of self and society level 100 (4th ed., pp.39-54). Boca Raton, FL: Lynn University.

Lehman, M. (2018). Observational learning. In D. Ainbinder & S. Unger (Eds.), Dialogues of self and society level 100 (4th ed., pp. 56-67). Boca Raton, FL: Lynn University.

Walls, J. (2006). The Glass Castle: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved from https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=BTMknk-qvacC