Social Learning Theory- Psychology
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- Created on: 18-10-17 19:24
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- Social Learning Theory
- Imitation
- copying the behaviours of others
- Identification
- seeing yourself like someone else and wanting to copy them
- Modeling
- imitating a role model or a role model demonstrating
- Vicarious reinforcement
- observing others being reinforced or punished and imitating the behaviour to achieve the same result
- Mediational Processes
- cognitive factors (attention, retention, reproduction and motivation)occurring between stimulus and response
- Bandura- Bobo Doll (1961)
- Children 3-5 years old observed an adult attacking (punching, kicking, hitting with a hammer, shouting) a bobo doll
- They were then left in the room with the doll and it was found that the children copied the behaviour. The findings were stronger if an adult was the same sex
- Another group of children saw adults acting neutrally towards the doll. These children did not attack the doll.
- Variations of the study- one shown recording dressed as a cat, suggests children may copy TV. Another showed adults being praised or punished, children increased behaviours that adults were praised for
- Evalution
- Strengths
- Applications
- crime and explain cultural variations
- Support for identification
- Fox and Bailenson 2009
- More exercise when shown a computer character model
- Fox and Bailenson 2009
- Applications
- Weaknesses
- Cause and effect
- are deviant kids copying other deviant kids or do they associate with deviant others because they are deviant
- Overreliance on lab studies
- demand characteristics
- Underestimates biological factors
- more complex than just watching others. Boys more aggressive than girls- Testosterone
- Cause and effect
- Strengths
- Imitation
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