Social Learning Theory

Observational learning

Learning through watching other people.

Modelling 

Is the act of copying an observed behaviour. If a parent frequently reads books, the child may model this behaviour by picking up books, opening them and turning pages.

Observational learning can take place without modelling; we don't copy everything we see, but we still learn it. It involves four steps:

• Attention: paying attention to the person being observed.
• Memory: being able to remember what we have seen until it is needed.
• Reproduction: being able to act out what we see - this is modelling.
• Motivation: the incentive to copy what has been seen.

Role models

The person we…