SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
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- SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY
- Bandura's BOBO Doll experiment
- Male and Female children (3-5 yrs)
- Shown a film of an adult with a lifesized bobo doll
- 1/2 of adults were aggressive towards the doll
- These children when put in a room with the bobo doll were aggressive towards the doll
- 1/2 were not aggressive towards the doll
- These children were not aggressive towards the doll when let to play
- Evaluation: Shows us children show this aggressive but not why they would have the motivation to perfrom the same actions
- Reference the later study of Bandura when adults were punished or rewarded for aggression
- VICARIOUS LEARNING
- Reference the later study of Bandura when adults were punished or rewarded for aggression
- Boys were more physically aggressive
- No difference in verbal aggression
- Evaluation: Shows us children show this aggressive but not why they would have the motivation to perfrom the same actions
- These children were not aggressive towards the doll when let to play
- 1/2 of adults were aggressive towards the doll
- Learning from direct experience- operant conditioning
- rewarded for aggression so the behavior is encouraged
- MENTAL REPRESENTATION
- For SL to take place a child must form mental representation of events in their social environments
- Expediencies of future Behaviors through representing possible punishments or rewards.
- If the opp exists they will show aggressive behaviors if the expectatitionof rewards is greater than punishement
- Production of Behaviour
- Maintenence through direct experience
- A child is rewarded for a behavior and gets what they want
- More likely to repeat the behaviour in the furutre
- A child is rewarded for a behavior and gets what they want
- Self Efficacy expectancies
- Development of confidence in ability to carry out aggressive actions
- Maintenence through direct experience
- EVALUATION
- Research Support
- Applicability to adults
- Studies are ,mainly on children, what about adult behavior?
- Phillips found dailyhomicide acts always increased a week after a major boxing match
- Shows adults may also be affected by SL
- Phillips found dailyhomicide acts always increased a week after a major boxing match
- Studies are ,mainly on children, what about adult behavior?
- Individual differences
- SLT can explain differences in aggressive and non aggressive behaviour.
- Differences within people can be explained by selective reinforcement
- People act differently as they have observed people being rewarded and punished for different aggressive acts on different scales
- Differences within people can be explained by selective reinforcement
- SLT can explain differences in aggressive and non aggressive behaviour.
- Jamie Bulger
- Real life application
- SLT through media- they had been watching violent films before the attack on jamie
- Blue paint in film so they covered jamie in blue paint
- SLT through media- they had been watching violent films before the attack on jamie
- Real life application
- Applicability to adults
- IDA
- ETHICAL ISSUES
- Difficult to test SLT in experiments
- Exposing children to aggressive behavior with knowledge they may reproduce the behavior is not ethical
- Need to protect them from harm
- Can't test experimental hypotheses so difficult to establish the scientific credibility of the theory by this means
- Exposing children to aggressive behavior with knowledge they may reproduce the behavior is not ethical
- Difficult to test SLT in experiments
- ETHICAL ISSUES
- Research Support
- Bandura's BOBO Doll experiment
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