4 - Social Learning Theory

Question 1

Assumptions

Answer 1

Bandura agreed with behaviourists that lots of our behaviour is learned through experience. However his social learning theory suggested people learn through observation and imitation. SLT suggests that learning occurs directly and indirectly through classical and operant conditioning

Question 2

Vicarious reinforcement

Answer 2

Reinforcement that is not directly experienced but occurs through observing someone else be reinforced for a bahviour