Chapter Eleven - Observational Learning Flashcards
Contagious Behavior?
A more-or-less instinctive of reflexive behavior triggered by observing the occurrence of the same behavior in another individual.
When you automatically do something just by seeing someone else do it.
Generalized Limitation?
The generalized tendency to imitate new modeled behaviors in the absence of any specific reinforcement for doing so.
The natural tendency to copy new behaviors from others, even if there’s no specific reward for doing so.
Observational Learning?
The process whereby the behavior of a model is witnessed by an observer, and the observer’s behavior is subsequently changed. Also called imitation.
Personal Process Rule?
A personal rule that indicated the specific process by which a task is to be accomplished. Also called an implementation intention.
A rule you create for yourself that explains how to do something.
Personal Rule (or Self-Instruction)?
A verbal description of a contingency that we present to ourselves to influence our behavior.
Rule?
A verbal description of a contingency.
Rule-governed Behavior?
Behavior that has been generated through exposure to rules.
Behavior that follows rules you’ve learned or been told about.
Say-do Correspondence?
A close match between what we say we are going to do and what we actually do at a later time.
Stimulus Enhancement?
The process by which a person becomes more likely to approach a particular object or location because their attention has been drawn to that object or location by the behavior of another individual.
When you’re more likely to approach something because someone else drew your attention to it.
True Imitation?
The close duplication if a novel behavior to achieve a specific goal.
Vicarious Emotional Response?
A classically conditioned emotional response resulting from the observation of that emotional response being exhibited by others.
You feel an emotion just by watching someone else experience it, due to learning through observation.
Social Facilitation?
The behavior of one animal prompts similar behaviors from another animal but the behavior is one that is already in the repertoire of the imitator.
Watching someone do something can encourage you to do the same thing, but it’s something you already know how to do.
What were the four basic distinctive aggressive behaviors:
- Sitting and punching
- Throwing
- Punching
- Kicking
We learn more from models that are _, _, _, & _.
- Competent
- Attractive
- Likeable
- Prestigious.
CALP!!!!!
_ tend to imitate ___
Children
Adults
