... which aggressive behaviour was rewarded or punished. His observational learning theory highlights the importance of vicarious learning or modelling, i.e. learning via observing the experiences of others. The learner's expectation of how well he would do, i.e. his self-efficacy would also determine how well he would perform. Comparison and Contrast Other than the difference in key concepts as highlighted above, one sees various contrasts among the three theories. Firstly, the three theories differ in their investigative methods. Skinner used animals in his study while Piaget and Bandura studied children. Skinner's "animal box" would have allowed him more control over the experiments and hence the results were more accurate and useful. However, the results of Skinner's study might not be totally valid when generalised to human learners. In contrast, Piaget and Bandura studied children, thus their results could be more representative of what truly occurs in the process of learning. A less trivial ...

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