SLT Social Learning Theory Flashcards
What is behaviour learned from?
Experience
What reinforcement does it use?
Vicarious
What is distinction?
Distance = made between performance of someone who may not demonstrate a particular behaviour at a particular time but may still have learned this behaviour and will demonstrate it when they think it is appropriate
Who do they experiment on?
Humans, not animals
What do they mostly do research on?
Aggression
Do people tend to copy/imitate behaviour from this study?
Yes
What is important in how we learn?
Mental processes
What takes place as a result of identifying acting as models?
Observational learning
Social learning theory case study?
Bandura:
- watches a video of someone attacking a bandura doll
- children innit ate the behaviour
- they attack the bandura doll thinking it is right
Strengths of SLT?
- all benefits of a scientific approach
- takes a less mechanistic view of human behaviour
- useful applications:media,violence,health psychology & treatment of mental disorders.
Weaknesses of SLT?
- difficult to generalise these findings of people’s lives
- ignores personality differences
- doesn’t sufficiently take into account of the role of biology and genetics and aggression
The stages of mediating cognitive factors?
Stimulus: attentional process, model feature, observer > retention,behaviour encoded , language/imagery > motor reproduction, ability of observer to perform behaviour > motivational process, rewards and punishment to determine if behaviour is performed = response
What is modelling?
Observational learning where an observer learns the behaviour from the other person who is called the MODEL. -though punishment or rewarding
What is mediating cognitive factors?
Processes that happen between stimulus and response of a models behaviour and the imitation of that behaviour by the observer.
