Social Learning theory
- Created by: Jess
- Created on: 03-03-14 17:20
View mindmap
- Social Learning theory
- Assumptions
- All behavior is learnt in a social context - not necessarily you
- Observing behavior in social contexts and seeing the rewards and punishments
- Not always learn , depends on mediating cog factors
- Learn from models with desirable characteristics
- Banduras Bobo doll experiment
- mediating cognitive factors
- Whether or not a behaviour would be imitated and learnt
- Attention: must be aware of the model
- encoding: remembering behaviour through visual imagery
- imitation: must feel able to perform - self efficacy
- motivation: whether or not the observer sees the model being rewarded or punished
- Self efficacy: persons beliefs about their capabilities to perform an event that affects their lives
- McCormick and McPherson
- Observational learning
- where people learn through observing the behaviour presented by someone
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- helps explain inconsistent behaviours, a child may perform differently at school to at home
- soft determisim as it regards people as being responsible for their own behaviours , recognizes both free will and determinism
- Uses controlled scientific experiments to investigate so can be replicated increasing the validity
- Limitations
- ignores the role of biology, eg in agression
- many of the bobo doll experiments would be seen as unethical
- bobo doll experiments lack EV
- Strengths
- Assumptions
- Learn from models with desirable characteristics
Comments
No comments have yet been made