Social Learning Theory - PSB

Question 1

Who supports PSB?

Answer 1

Sprafkin et al and Ostrov

Question 2

Sprafkin et al findings

Answer 2

Children who watched a video of a boy saving a puppy took more time out of thier prize winning game to allow barking dogs to be helped compared to children who watched videos where there was no example of humans helping dogs

Question 3

What feature of motivation does Spafkin support?

Answer 3

That PSB more likely if the children could identify with the role model, as the film featured a young boy and the pps were young children.

Question 4

What method did Ostrov use?

Answer 4

Observations of violent behaivour

Question 5

What did ostrov find?

Answer 5

Watching educational media demonstrating PSB was associated with a higher frequency of PSB

Question 6

What was Ostrov’s additional finding?

Answer 6

Children were most likely to copy behavior off same sex model than opposite sex model. Shows motivation is greater if the individual can identify with the role model.

Question 7

Strength of the research into PSB?

Answer 7

Well triangulated. Spafkin conducted a lab experiment while Ostrov viewed real life pro social behavior.
Also Spafkin shows short term effects while Ostrov shows long term effects

Question 8

IDA point

Answer 8

Practical applications. Place examples of children showing PSB in the media, according to theory should imitate behavior.
Also if this works can conclude theory is a valid one.