Albert Bandura

Question 1

Social learning theory

Answer 1

• influenced by what you see socially around you
• learning via imitation(observing hen imitate)
• much learning happens in social environment

Question 2

By observing other people, we acquire:

Answer 2

• knowledge
• strategies (how to react)
• rules (what is/isn’t acceptable)
• beliefs (becomes more developed)
• skills
• attitudes

Question 3

What are the reciprocal interactions (Triassic reciprocality)

Answer 3

Environment
Person
Behavior that is some sort present

Question 4

Learning occurs either

Answer 4

Enactively

Or vicariously

Question 5

Explain learning enactively

Answer 5

• learning through actual doing

* involves learning from the consequences of ones own actions

Question 6

Explain learning vicariously

Answer 6

• learning by observing models perform

* much human learning occurs vicariously

Question 7

Common source of vicarious learning

Answer 7

• observing/listening to models in person
• symbolic/non-human (cartoon characters/animals/superheroes)
• print (books and magazines)

Question 8

Consequences of observation

Answer 8

• motivates people

* informs people of the accuracy/appropriateness of behavior

Question 9

Explain self regulation

Answer 9

• as people become socialized they depend less on external rewards and punishments and increasingly regulate their own behaviors - reward and punish themselves
• you must be clear on your own goals
• children tend to adopt self evaluative standards of peers rather than adults

Question 10

Explain the modeling process

Answer 10

Refers to behavioral, cognitive and effective changes deriving from observing one or more models

Question 11

Explain inhibition

Answer 11

• occurs when models are punished for performing certain actions which in turn stops/prevents observers from acting accordingly

Question 12

Explain disinhibition

Answer 12

•Occurs when models perform threatening/prohibited activities without experiencing negative consequences

Question 13

Observable learning

Answer 13

We do what we do because we’ve seen others do it

Question 14

Response facilitation

Answer 14

People learn skills and behaviors that don’t perform because of lack of motivation

Question 15

Name the 4 components of observable learning

Answer 15

Attentional process

Retention process

Production process

Reinforcement and motivational process

Question 16

Explain Attentional process

Answer 16

• we cannot imitate a model of we don’t pay attention to the model
• models attract our attention because they are distinctive and possess something that we want - we won’t copy an unsuccessful person

Question 17

Explain retentional process

Answer 17

• requires cognitively organized, rehearsed, coded and transformed modeled information for storage in memory
- knowledge can be stored as image/verbal/both

Question 18

Explain rehearsal process

Answer 18

• the mental review of information

Question 19

Explain production process

Answer 19

• translating visual and symbolic concepts of modeled events into overt behaviors
• teacher saying ‘do you understand?’ Children really don’t understand

Question 20

Explain reinforcement and motivation

Answer 20

• influences observational learning