Learning: Observational Learning

Question 1

Observational Learning

Answer 1

= learning new behaviours or information by watching and imitating others
- “modeling” is our capacity to learn by watching others

Question 2

AR3

Answer 2

• Attention = pay attention and observe the modeled behaviour
• Retain = mentally represent & retain observations
• Reproduce = convert mental representations into actions & be physically capable of reproducing
• Reinforcement = reinforcement influences motivation

Question 3

Acquisition & Performance

Answer 3

• Acquisition = the response by which the behaviour is learned by observation
• Performance = the process by which the observer acts out the newly learned response
  acquiring a skill > practice > improved performance