Social Learning Theory
- Created by: jenni2906
- Created on: 21-09-16 14:17
View mindmap
- Social Learning Theory
- What is it?
- 1. Paying Attention to a behaviour
- 2. Retaining and remembering the behaviour
- 3. Reproducing the behaviour
- 4. Gaining motivation to carry on reproducing the behaviour
- Role Models - the person the observer copies the behaviour from
- Usually the same sex as the observer
- Admired
- High Status
- Usually older
- Have something that the observer desires
- Strengths?
- Supported by Bandura, Ross and Ross
- Adult acting aggressive towards the Bobo doll - most children reciprocated the behaviour
- Kubinyi 2003
- Dogs watched owner press handle on a box to get a ball 10 times, dogs reproduced the behaviour
- Includes elements of cognitive processes that classical conditioning and operant conditioning don't consider
- Useful for the treatment of OCD
- Can explain the learning of a new behaviour
- Supported by Bandura, Ross and Ross
- Weaknesses?
- Difficult to test as behaviour may not be reciprocated straight away
- Experiments may lack validity
- Some experiments are carried out on animals so it is difficult to generalise
- What is it?
Comments
No comments have yet been made