4.2.1 - social learning theory

Question 1

What are the features of slt

Answer 1

• emphasised the importance of observing, modelling and imitating the behaviours and emotional reactions of others
• vicarious reinforcement and meditational processes allow this to happen
• considered how both environmental and cognitive factors influence human learning and behaviour

Question 2

In what way does slt agree with the behaviourist approach

Answer 2

• mediating processed occur between the stimuli and the response
• behaviour is learnt and nothing is innate

Question 3

Define vicarious learning

Answer 3

A process in which indirect learning takes place
- the learner imitates the models behaviour based on the positive or negative reinforcement that they receive

Question 4

What are the 4 mdiational processes

Answer 4

• attention : the extent to which we notice the behaviour
• retention : how well behaviour is remembered
• motor reproduction : the ability of the observer to copy and perform certain behaviours
• motivation : the will to perform the behaviour, usually based on the reward or punishment that was experienced by the model

Question 5

Identification definition

Answer 5

Attaching oneself to a model because they have the qualities that we wish to possess: we usually identify to people that share similar quantities to us

Question 6

Define imitation

Answer 6

The act of copying behaviour

Question 7

Model

Answer 7

Any person that shows examples of behaviour

Question 8

A03: research support

Answer 8

• Banduras research supported slt because the children copied the models behaviour
• observational learning has been identifies in monkeys: increases the external validity

Question 9

A03: scientific

Answer 9

A. Strength
- high control increases the internal validity of the theory

Question 10

A03: ignores the unobservable though process

Answer 10

• limitation
  Have to make inferences that are not slash’s reliable
  Is reductionist,

Question 11

A03: research on children

Answer 11

• most of the research support is carried out on children, however the slt is generalised to all people including adults
• decreases the validity of the results.

Question 12

Aims of bandura

Answer 12

To demonstrate that children are able to learn social behaviour through the process of observation and imitation through watching the behaviour of another person

Question 13

Banduras method

Answer 13

children between 3-6 were ppts in the experiment.
- before the investigation each child was rated 1-5 based on how aggressive they are at school from their teachers
- ppts split into groups
- group A were showed a clip of someone acting aggressively towards the bobo doll
- group B were shown a clip of someone who ignored the bobo doll and played quietly
- group C were not shown any clip
- after being shown the clips, each child was placed into a room with a bobo doll and toys individually ad their behaviour towards the bobo doll was recorded.

Question 14

Banduras findings

Answer 14

• children observing the aggressive model, behaved more aggressively towards the bobo doll than the other groups
• the girls were less physically aggressive =, but more verbally aggressive

Question 15

Badura a03: demand characteristics

Answer 15

Limitation
- the ppts may believe that that is what they are wanted to do, so want to please the experimenters

Question 16

Bandura a03: purpose of bobo doll

Answer 16

The purpose of a bobo doll is to be hit, so the children are just playing with the toy as it is designed to be played with
- there isn’t much else to do in the room where they are