Social Learning Theory

Question 1

Attention

Answer 1

we watch behaviour and attend to it.

Question 2

Retention

Answer 2

We remember the behaviour and watch happened

Question 3

Reproduction

Answer 3

Physically able to repeat the behaviour. Self-Efficacy- is the belief in your own ability to imitate behaviour.

Question 4

Motivation

Answer 4

What is the benefit to imitating behaviour? Usually similar to you and admired by you and then vicarious reinforcement.

Question 5

Vicarious Reinforcement

Answer 5

learning through how other people are operant conditioned

Question 6

+Supported by Bandura

Answer 6

evidence for attention, retention, reproduction and motivation. Also evidence that behaviour will be replicated of same sex models (as long as the behaviour is deemed gender appropriate i.e. verbal aggression for females, physical aggression for males)

Question 7

+Supported by Bandura variation

Answer 7

Vicarious reinforcement and punishment of the model affected the reproduction of behaviour supporting how this is an important aspect of motivation.

Question 8

+Scientific

Answer 8

use of controlled experiments to make observable behaviour more objective and repeatable (reliable)

Question 9

+Usefulness

Answer 9

treatment of phobias. E.g. Modelling based therapies.

Question 10

-Testability

Answer 10

Ecological validity. The research that the theory is based on struggles to full represent learning in the real world. This is a sacrifice of being objective and scientific- the theory becomes unrepresentative of the real world.

Question 11

-Reductionism

Answer 11

Greatly underestimates the role of biological factors, including genetic differences and instincts, on behaviour. Human mental and emotional states are oversimplified.