The modeling process, according to Bandura, consists of four steps: retention, attention,

motivation, and replication. The primary phase, attention, happens when a person recognizes an

action going place for the first time (Jackson, 1978). The person identifies with and recalls the

activity they saw in the subsequent phase of retention. The next phase is reproduction, whenever

the person repeats the action they saw and remembered. Lastly, the person is exhilarated to

match the effort through an enticement of the last motivation phase (“reward for the action”).

Modeling may be a good or negative process, which means that a person can learn beneficial acts

(including social services such as volunteering) or harmful ones (like drug use and violence).

Modeling is an idea.

“This important model within experimental social psychology has made considerable

advances to a micro knowledge of prosocial and deviant conduct,” as per Jackson (1978). With

the social learning concept, Bandura provided an accurate account of the thought processes

behind learning. People learn ways to feed and groom themselves as kids by observing their

parents do it regularly. When people begin a new position, they usually undergo a training phase

in which they keep a professional worker learning how to do the job correctly. Individuals learn

by modeling far into adulthood, rendering Bandura’s theory eternally relevant hence; I feel it is

the cognitive model’s best practical personality development idea.