social learning theory

Question 1

what are the key assumptions?

Answer 1

people learn through the observation and imitation of others in a social context

Question 2

what are vicarious reinforcements?

Answer 2

when a behavior is reinforced by watching a behavior having a consequence

Question 3

what are the 4 stages of learning proposed by bandura?

Answer 3

1. attention- observation of behavior
2. retention- the behavior is remembered
3. motor reproduction- the ability to reproduce the behavior
4. motivation- the will to preform the behavior often decided by reward or punishment

Question 4

what are the two summary stages of learning and when do they occur?

Answer 4

the learning and performance of behavior, they do not have to occur together as behavior may be stored and preformed and later times

Question 5

what is identification?

Answer 5

when a person imitates their role model

Question 6

when was bandura’s main experiment?

Answer 6

1961

Question 7

how many children did bandura use?

Answer 7

72

Question 8

What were bandura’s 3 conditions?

Answer 8

24 saw a aggressive role model
24 saw a non-aggressive role model
24 saw no role model

Question 9

what were bandura’s finding?

Answer 9

those who saw a aggressive role model behaved more violently and were more attracted to guns despite them not being used by the role model

Question 10

who conducted a follow up study on bandura’s 1961 experiment?

Answer 10

bandura and Walters

Question 11

what were the 3 conditions of the follow up study?

Answer 11

the groups saw the behaviour of aggression wither having : no consequence, punishment or rewards

Question 12

what were the findings of bandura’s follow up study?

Answer 12

those who saw the behaviour reward were more likely to behave aggressively where as those who saw it punished were less likely to replicate the behaviour, those who saw it having no consequence were in the middle

Question 13

what were the implications of bandura’s research?

Answer 13

censorship to what children see using age rating especially on video games and movies

Question 14

what is a strength to do with cognition?

Answer 14

the approach recognizes that there is a cognitive process involved as we can choose whether to repeat a behavior or not

Question 15

what is the strength involved with culture?

Answer 15

it explains cultural differences as some cultures value it whilst others don’t

Question 16

why is this approach less deterministic?

Answer 16

it says we learn a behaviour but can choose and have to have the motivation to repeat it.

Question 17

what is reciprocal determinism?

Answer 17

we influence our environments, as we choose a environment which will reward the behaviour (choose video games to outlet anger and the games also reward anger)

Question 18

what is a weakness of the lab studies used?

Answer 18

they use artificial tasks for example the children had never played with bobo before so repeated what they saw, there are also demand characteristics

Question 19

what is a biological weakness of this approach?

Answer 19

the importance of hormones as boys will be more aggressive despite having similar role models