SLT Approach

Question 1

Who developed SLT?

Answer 1

Albert Bandura

Question 2

Approach combines…

Answer 2

elements of the behaviourist approach with the role of cognitive factors
(learning and thinking)

Question 3

Approach emphasises the role of…

Answer 3

other people in our learning of behaviour
(social)

Question 4

Bandura developed behaviourist ideas further by proposing a different way in which people learn:

Answer 4

through observation and imitation of others
(copying what we see)

Question 5

What are the 4 mediational processes?

Answer 5

• attention
• retention
• motor reproduction
• motivation

Question 6

What is attention?

Answer 6

focusing on a behaviour we see
- we choose to pay attention/do this

Question 7

What is retention?

Answer 7

we store the behaviour in our memory so we can access it later

Question 8

What is motor reproduction?

Answer 8

the ability of the observer to perform the behaviour

Question 9

What is motivation?

Answer 9

the will or desire to perform the behaviour

Question 10

What is a model?

Answer 10

• someone we identify with
• viewed as attractive, have high status, competent, or like ourselves
• could even be someone on TV/ other forms of media

Question 11

What is identification?

Answer 11

a process where we are most likely to pay attention to a behaviour, remember it, and later imitate it if the person we see performing the behaviour is someone we identify with

Question 12

Motivation to perform the behaviour is often determined by…

Answer 12

the consequences of the behaviour we observe
(punished or rewarded?)

Question 13

We can’t automatically imitate a behaviour if we don’t have the…

Answer 13

• motor reproduction
• skills/ability

Question 14

What is indirect learning?

Answer 14

where we learn by seeing someone else being rewarded or punished rather than ourselves

Question 15

What is vicarious reinforcement?

Answer 15

• we see someone else being rewarded
• we are more likely to be motivated to perform the behaviour ourselves

Question 16

What is vicarious punishment?

Answer 16

• we see someone else being punished
• we are less likely to be motivated to perform the behaviour ourselves

Question 17

Bobo Doll studies studied…

Answer 17

aggression

Question 18

Original Bobo Doll studies

Answer 18

• 1961
• Bandura recorded behaviour of young children (aged 3-5)
• children either watched adult attack doll (hammer, shout abuse) or interact in a non-aggressive way

Question 19

Results of original bobo doll studies

Answer 19

• children watched attack = they attack too
• children watched non-aggressive = they are non-aggressive too

Question 20

Later version of Bobo Doll study

Answer 20

• 3 groups of children see adult behave aggressively towards doll
• group 1: adults being praised for behaviour
• group 2: adults being punished for behaviour
• group 3=CONTROL GROUP: adults got no consequences
• children then got opportunity to play with doll

Question 21

Results of later bobo doll studies

Answer 21

• boys = likely to imitate regardless the consequences
• girls = less likely to imitate when model is punished
• model rewarded = children more likely to imitate (vicarious reinforcement)
• little difference in group that saw reward + group that saw no consequences