SLT Approach Flashcards
Who developed SLT?
Albert Bandura
Approach combines…
elements of the behaviourist approach with the role of cognitive factors
(learning and thinking)
Approach emphasises the role of…
other people in our learning of behaviour
(social)
Bandura developed behaviourist ideas further by proposing a different way in which people learn:
through observation and imitation of others
(copying what we see)
What are the 4 mediational processes?
- attention
- retention
- motor reproduction
- motivation
What is attention?
focusing on a behaviour we see
- we choose to pay attention/do this
What is retention?
we store the behaviour in our memory so we can access it later
What is motor reproduction?
the ability of the observer to perform the behaviour
What is motivation?
the will or desire to perform the behaviour
What is a model?
- someone we identify with
- viewed as attractive, have high status, competent, or like ourselves
- could even be someone on TV/ other forms of media
What is identification?
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
Motivation to perform the behaviour is often determined by…
the consequences of the behaviour we observe
(punished or rewarded?)
We can’t automatically imitate a behaviour if we don’t have the…
- motor reproduction
- skills/ability
What is indirect learning?
where we learn by seeing someone else being rewarded or punished rather than ourselves
What is vicarious reinforcement?
- we see someone else being rewarded
- we are more likely to be motivated to perform the behaviour ourselves
What is vicarious punishment?
- we see someone else being punished
- we are less likely to be motivated to perform the behaviour ourselves
Bobo Doll studies studied…
aggression
Original Bobo Doll studies
- 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
Results of original bobo doll studies
- children watched attack = they attack too
- children watched non-aggressive = they are non-aggressive too
Later version of Bobo Doll study
- 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
Results of later bobo doll studies
- 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