social learning theory
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- Created on: 07-03-21 12:54
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- social learning theory
- main ideas
- classical conditioning and operant conditoning
- mediating processes between stimuli and responses
- behaviour is learnt from environmental through observational learning
- focuses on how cognitive factors are involved in learning
- Bobo doll experiment
- models
- individuals that are observed are called models
- influential models for children are - parents, family, tv characters, friends, teachers
- models provide examples of behaviour to observe and imitate
- children are more likely to imitate those they see similar to themselves
- more likely to copy those of the same gender
- reinforcement and punishment
- imitation is responded to with wither reinforcement or punishment
- reinforcement encourages the behaviour
- reinforcement can be external or internal. positive or negative
- vicarious reinforcement
- child takes into account what happens to other people when deciding whether or not to copy someone else's actions
- identification
- motivation to identify with someone is them having a quality they wish to posses
- model adopts observed behaviours, values, belieefs and attitudes of the person they are identifying with
- different to imitation as it involves adopting a number of behaviours, where as imitation is often copying a single behaviour
- mediational processes
- people are active information processeors
- mental factors mediate (intervene) in the learning process to determine if a new response is required
- this happens between the stimulus and response
- 1. attention - the extent to which we are exposed / notice behaviour
- 2. retention - how well is behaviour remembered
- 3. reproduction - the ability to perform the behaviour the model has just demonstrated
- 4. motivation - the will to perform the behaviour
- critical evaluation
- doesn't adequately account for how we develop a range of behaviour
- slt renamed as social cognitive theory as it is a better description of how we learn from social experiences
- it is limiting to describe behaviour as solely nature or nurture
- not a full explanation for behaviour
- no role model to imitate
- the discovery of mirror neurons give biological support
- main ideas
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