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Social Learning
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- 1Social Learning AssumptionOther people influence our behaviour
- 2Social Learning is based on..observational learning
- 3How is behaviour learnt?by experience
- 4behaviour is not learned just from..direct reward and punishment, as with operant conditioning
- 5people will imitate or copy behaviour only if..they have seen rewarded in other people and not copy that which has been punished
- 6Vicarious reinforcement is..when the observer learns that a model's behaviour has been reinforced or rewarded
- 7distinction between learning behaviour and performing behavioura person might learn a behaviour from observing someone receiving a reward but might not perform it, as they choose not to or inappropriate.
- 8mental processes are important part of learning..input-> mediating cognitions->output
- 9similarities to behaviourist approachboth believe behaviour comes from the environment
- 10differences to behaviourist approachexperiments on humans in social learning, animals in behaviourist
- 11Modellingthe process of, having observing a behaviour, imitating it.
- 12observational learningtakes place as a result of one person watching another person and observing the consequences of the behaviour
- 13Bandura et al aimto demonstrate observational learning
- 14Bandura et al methodgroup 1 children in a room with an adult behaving aggressively towards a bobo doll. group 2 behaved in a subdued way. Children then put in a room with a bobo doll and a hammer
- 15Bandura et al resultsgroup 1 children behaved more aggressively than group 2
- 16Bandura et al conclusionmere exposure to a model behaving aggressively results in observational learning and aggressive behaviour. Demonstrating modelling
- 17Bandura et al evaluationlow ecological validity as the scenario is artificial. Demand characteristics- thought they were meant to copy. ethical issues- encouraging children to be violent
- 18Mediating Cognitive Factorsthe mental process which occurs between observing a behaviour and demonstrating
- 19Stage 1 Attentionthe observer must show an interest in observing the model. More likely if they are attractive, high status or similar
- 20Stage 2 Retentionthe behaviour and its consequence, must be remembered by the observer
- 21Stage 3 ReproductionImitation will only occur if a person has the skills and believes themselves to have the skills to imitate the behaviour
- 22Stage 4 Motivationdirect and vicarious reinforcements will affect whether the observer wants to imitate the behaviour
- 23lacks ecological validity, but is reliableuses the scientific method of experimentation
- 24too reductionist, doesn't take other factors into accountdoes not take biological factors into account
- 25more appropriate for humansunlike behaviourism, takes thought processes into account
- 26too reductionistdoes not take personality differences into account
- 27real world applicationsbeen applied to many areas e.g. media violence, gender
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