Social Learning Theory
- Created by: Beverley
- Created on: 17-04-13 19:05
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- Social Learning Theory (SLT)
- Research Methods
- observational, learning from models
- Mediating Cognitive Factors
- Stage 2 : Memory
- Stage 3: Assessment of own ability
- Stage 1: Attention
- Stage 4: Observed consequences
- Basic Assumption
- behavior is learnt through observations and imitiation
- people will copy behavior of those being rewarded and not those being punished
- vacarious reinforcement increases the likelihood of imitation
- reinforcement doesn't need to be direct
- Mental or cognitive processes are essential
- Evaluation
- Strengths
- uses scientific methods or experimentation to study people
- applied to understanding media violence, health psychology and treatment of mental disorders
- less mechanistic view than behaviorism
- Cognitive processes taken into account
- Limitations
- doesn't take into account the role of biology and genetics in agression
- lacks ecological validity; artificial experiment in a lab using a bobo doll
- difficult to generalize to everyday lives
- ignores personality differences e.g. introversion and extroversion
- Strengths
- Application
- modelling to change behavior
- Case Studies
- Bandura et all (1961)
- Aim: demonstrate observational or imitative learning
- Method: one group of children put in a room with an aggressive behaving adult and a bobo doll (adult hit doll with a hammer) other group was put in with a subdued non-aggressive adult
- Continued.... each child then put in playroom with toys, hammer and a bobo doll. recorded number of aggressive behaviors made to doll
- Results: Those who watched the aggressive adult behaved more aggressively compared with those with a non-aggressive adult. Boys were generally more aggressive than girls
- Conclusion: exposure to a model behaving aggressively results in observational learning and aggressive behavior
- Bandura et all (1961)
- Research Methods
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