Social Learning theory
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- Created on: 03-10-17 19:56
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- social learning theory
- Vicarious reinforcement
- The learner imitates this behaviour to be rewarded after observing someone else do it
- Mediational processes
- Attention, retention, motor reproduction, motivation
- The thinking between stimulus and response
- Indentification
- Imitating behaviour from a role model, this is called modelling
- Bandura's bobo doll experiment
- 72 children
- 24 watched aggressive adult with bobo doll, another 24 watched an adult being nice and the other 24 were a control group
- The group who were showed the adult being aggressive were found to be aggressive too, they had imitated the adults behaviour
- 72 children
- AO3 evaluation
- Weakness- It lacked ecological validity as it was a lab experiment and the children may have responded to demand characteristics
- Weakness- Bandura never took biologicl factors into account as boys may have been more aggressive due to them having more testosterone
- Strength- Banduras reciprocal determinism says our behaviour can be dependant on our external environment at the time. This suggests we have some free will in the way we behave.
- Vicarious reinforcement
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