A psychological theory that involves the "internal" cause of human behavior is social learning theory. In 1977 a theorist Albert Bandura, “stated that behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning” (McLeod, 2011). In other words, learning is based on observation and modeling. Bandura believed that humans are selective about what they pay attention to and create a relationship between their behavior and consequences. Observational learning can only come from the modeling process which consists of four stages: attention, retention, production and motivation. First of all attention, to learn something the person must pay attention to a certain situation or observe. Secondly, memory retention plays an important role in this step because to fully understand something a person must be able to retrieve the information they have learned. Third, production occurs when the person repeats or imitates the behavior exhibited by their model. Fourth, motivation, for a person to successfully learn through observation, they must have the desire to learn it. (Fryling, M.,
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