Social Learning Theory

Question 1

Introduction to Social Learning Theory

Answer 1

Bandura proposed it as a development of behaviourist approach

• focuses on human > animals behaviour

learning through OBSERVATION + IMITATION of ROLE MODELS

• can occur through CC/OC (directly) or observation (indirectly)

Question 2

Imitation

Answer 2

• coping others to gauge how to behaviour
• as children, we imitate behaviour from parents
• Bandura was initially interested in children’s aggression

Question 3

Role Models

Answer 3

• usually people of higher status
• same-sex, age + high-profile celebrities
• someone we can identify ourselves with

Question 4

Identification

Answer 4

• someone that reflects something about you
• sex, clothing, age, mannerisms

Question 5

Vicarious Reinforcement

Answer 5

learn consequences of behaviour from others

Positive Vicarious Reinforcement - tendency to repeat + duplicate behaviour to be rewarded like others

Negative Vicarious Reinforcement - less likely to be copied

Question 6

Bobo Doll experiment

Answer 6

36 boys and 36 girls from the
Stanford University Nursery School aged
between 3 to 6 years old

Aggressive model shown to 24 children:
Non-aggressive model shown to 24
children
No model shown (control condition) - 24
children

Children who observed the aggressive
model acted more aggressively towards
the bobo doll then the group who
observed the non-aggressive model or
control groups.

• Boys imitated more physically
  aggressive acts than girls.
• Boys were more likely to imitate
  same-sex models than girls.
• not strict lab experiments
• controlled observation
  -no extraneous variable

Question 7

role of mediational processes

Answer 7

processes between stimulus + response