4/25 Bandura Blog

2. In a few sentences, list any and all specific media or cultural items that your parents or grandparents think are bad influences on you, and explain the impact that these items have had on you if any (i.e. specific types of music, video games, TV, movies, celebrities, specific sites on the internet, etc.)

My dad thinks that a lot of the music we listen to is "rap crap". My parents and grandparents are not fond of the violence and profanity that can so easily be found now in music as well as video games and television. No adult really thinks it is okay that we are exposed from such a young age to such inappropriate material. Especially with the internet at our fingertips always, now even with school computers, they all think we have too much access and freedom.


3. Reflect on the people you have imitated over the course of your life: family members, friends, or people in the media. Who have your “models” been? Identify and describe specific ideas, attitudes, fashions, habits, ways of thinking, behaving, and speaking that you have picked up through observational learning. BE SPECIFIC! Write a paragraph with plenty of examples from your own life.

My biggest model in my life has been my mother. I find her to be most admirable for many reasons. She is someone who is extremely driven. When someone tells her she can't do something, it makes her just that much more motivated to get it done. She was told upon graduating high school that she would not be attending college because her parents were unwilling to pay to further her education. Well, my mom wanted to go on to college so she worked long hours to earn enough money to put herself through Bergen Community College, commuting and paying for her own gas. She then graduated from there with a 4.0 gpa and moved on to Rutgers University. Now she is an extremely successful partial owner of an insurance agency. Her motivation, the way she talks and acts, I do my best to copy. I think I have picked up a lot of that drive an applied it to my life academically, athletically, and socially. Even when I was little, I would always watch her in admiration. She put makeup on and got dressed nicely for work and I would put on play makeup and try on and walk around in her high heels. After work she would go to the gym so I put on her running shoes and walked around like her. Then and now there are so many things about her that I want to mimic.