Approaches- Social Learning Theory
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- Social Learning Theory
- mediational processes
- 1. attention
- seeing a behaviour
- 2. retention
- remembering a behaviour
- 3. motivation
- wanting to repeat a behaviour
- 3. motor reproduction
- being able to repeat a behaviour
- cognitive factors that must happen before imitation
- 1. attention
- key definitions
- imitation
- copying someone else's (a role models) behaviour
- vicarious reinforcement
- reinforcement experienced by observing someone else being reinforced
- identification
- when an observer associates themselves with and wants to be like a role model
- imitation
- main assumptions
- learning happens in a social context
- learning by observing and imitating a role model
- Bandura et al- Bobo dolls
- experiment 1
- procedure
- Put children into 3 groups
- showed all 3 groups video of adult playing aggressively with bobo doll.
- 1 group saw praise for behaviour
- 1 group saw punishment for behaviour
- 1 group saw no consequence
- findings
- group with praise were most aggressive, then no consequence, then punishment
- procedure
- experiment 2
- procedure
- put children into 3 groups
- Put 1 group into room with Bobo doll with no modelling
- Showed 1 group an adult playing aggressively with bobo doll, then put into room with bobo doll.
- Showed 1 group an adult playing peacefully with bobo doll, then put into room with bobo doll.
- findings
- children were more aggressive when had aggressive modelling, then no modelling, then peaceful modelling.
- procedure
- experiment 1
- Strengths
- less deterministic than behaviourism
- reciprocal determinism- accounts for free will
- accounts for cultural differences
- explains why different cultures have different 'norms'
- can be applied in all cultures
- explains why different cultures have different 'norms'
- not reductionistic
- accounts for cognitive factors
- explains why not all behaviour is repeated
- accounts for cognitive factors
- less deterministic than behaviourism
- Limitations
- over reliance on lab experiments
- bobo doll experiment was conducted in unnatural conditions
- children could have acted differently (demand characteristic)
- low ecological validity
- children could have acted differently (demand characteristic)
- bobo doll experiment was conducted in unnatural conditions
- ignores biological factors
- testosterone naturally makes boys more aggressive
- This wasn't accounted for.
- low internal validity
- This wasn't accounted for.
- testosterone naturally makes boys more aggressive
- over reliance on lab experiments
- mediational processes
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