Albert Bandura Flashcards
Reciprocal determinism
Person does a behavior and changes whatever their environment is, then does something in response which causes another change
Cause and effect
3 things going on in reciprocal determinism
Behavior
Environment
What’s going on in the mind
When you are thinking about something, you can picture what will happen based on
Experience or observation
Bobo Doll experiment
How children react to adults hitting the bobo doll
Observe adults in aggression
Children copy ONLY when adults weren’t punished
Steps to observational learning
1- attention = person learning has to be attentive
2- retention = retain what you paid attention to
3- reproduction = actual reproduction of the behavior
Therapy methods
Self control
Work by making self contracts, scheduling and behaviors
Observational learning
Social learning
Learning by watching what happens to others and how the world reacts to their behavior