LT4 - Social Learning Theory

LT4 - Social Learning Theory

1. AO1

   • Bandura's Research
     • 1961
       • Findings
         • Aggressive
           • 1/3 imitated
         • Non-aggressive
           • Virtually nothing
         • Girls
           • Verbal Aggression
         • Boys
           • Physical Aggression
             • Same Sex Model>
       • Procedures
         • Aggressive
           • Non-aggressive
             • Control
               • 24 Children
                 • No model
             • 24 Children
               • Subdued toyset play
           • 24 Children
             • Aggressive Model to Bobo doll
               • Phsyical and Verbal Aggression
         • Taken to room w/ bobo doll
           • Room had aggressive toys E.G. Gun left to play
     • 1965
       • Procedures
         • Videos of aggro adult
           • Model reward condition
             • Model Punished Condition
               • Children saw adult told off
               • Control
                 • No consequence
             • Children saw adult praised
       • Fiindings
         • MRC - More likely to show high aggro
           • Followed by control
   • Description
     • Vicarious Reinforcement
       • Indirect learning via observation
         • Consequences => Imitation
     • Modelling
       • Pbserving Models
         • Demonstrate Specific Behaviour
           • Observers imitate behaviour
     • Identification
       • Desire to be associated
         • Characteristics of models influence this
           • Same Sex, similar age, hot, high status => More likely association
     • ARRM
       • 1 - Attention
         • Focus on distinctive, relevant behaviours
         • 2 - Retention
           • Remembering, storing, recalling behaviour
           • 3 - Reproduction
             • Ability to recall and perform behaviour
               • Self-efficacy, physicality
             • 4 - Motivation
               • Will to enact
                 • Determined by whether behaviour was rewarded/punished
     • Imitation
       • Copying

2. AO3

   • Strengths
     • P: Positive Applications
       • E1: TV Broadccasters, Game Makers, Watershed, PEGI
         • E2: Therapies, explanations (Gender, agression, phobias)
           • L: Contribution
     • P: Acknowledges mediational processes
       • E1: Unlike CC + OC, acknowledges cognitive and motivational factors (Reflected in ARRM)
         • L: Comprehensive
           • CP: Cognitive factors have to be inferred, not possible to measure
   • Weaknesses
     • P: Culture bias(?)
       • E1: Children between 3-5, can't generalise older
         • E2: Research was done in US, may be diff in collectivist cultures
           • L: Not representative, beta bias