social lesrning theory Flashcards
define social learning theory
learning though observing others and imitating behaviours that are rewarded
define modelling
a form of learning where individuals learn a particular behaviour by observing another individual performing that behaviour
what is a live model
teacher, parent etc
what is a symbolic model
someone portrayed in the media
define identification
where an individual adopts a behaviour because they want to be associated with a particular person
in order to identify with a model, observes must feel like what?
that they are similar enough to them that they would experience the same outcome
imitation
observing someone as a model and copying their behaviour
what did shutts suggest?
that children and more likely to identify with models who are similar to them, especially same sex models
define meditational processes
refer to the internal processes that exist between environmental stimuli and a response made by and individual to those stimuli
define vicarious reinforcement
children who observed a model rewarded for aggressive behaviour are more likely to imitate that behaviour than children who had observed a model punished for the same behaviour
individuals do not…
need to experience rewards and punishments directly in order to learn them
describe Bandura’s experiment
Half the children were exposed to adult models interacting aggressively with a bobo doll and half exposed to a non-aggressive model
describe Bandura’s findings
children who observed the aggressive model reproduced aggressive behaviour.
children who observed the non-aggressive model exhibited virtually no aggression towards the Bobo doll
what did Bandura and Walter find out from a follow up study ?
children who saw the model being rewarded for aggressive acts were more likely to show aggression in their own play
disadvantage of the social leaning theory
- there are other things that influence our behaviour, not just modelling. E.g, media portrayals, locus of control, genetic predisposition
exposing children to aggressive behaviour in the chance that they may produce it cause ethical issues
