The Learning Approach: Social Learning Theory

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social Learning theory is learning that occurs

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Indirectly

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Albert Bandura agrees with the

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Behaviourist approach

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While Bandura agreed with the behaviourists, he also proposed that learning takes place in

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A social context through observation and imitation of others behaviour

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Learning related to consequences of behaviour

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Vicarious reinforcement

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Children and adults observe

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Other people’s behaviour and take note of the consequences

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Behaviour that is seen to be reinforced is much more likely to be

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Copied

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Behaviour that is seen to be punished is

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Less likely to be copied

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There are four mediational processes in learning

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Attention
Retention
Motor reproduction
Motivation

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Attention

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Whenever behaviour is noticed

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Retention

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Whether behaviour is remembered

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Motor reproduction

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Being able to do it

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Motivation

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The will to perform the behaviour

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Attention and retention relate to the

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Learning of behaviour

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Motor reproduction and motivation relate to the

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Performance of behaviour

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Children are more likely to imitate the behaviour of

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People with whom they identify with

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Such role models that are similar to the observer tend to be

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Attractive and have high standards

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Bandura’s research 1 - children watched an adult either

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Behaving aggressively towards a bobo doll

Behaving non-aggressively towards a bobo doll

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Bandura’s research 1 - when given their own doll to play with

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The children who had seen aggression were much more aggressive towards the doll

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Bandura’s research 2 - children saw an adult who was either

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Rewarded
Punished
Neither rewarded or punished

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Bandura’s research 2 - when given their own doll to play with

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The children who saw the aggression rewarded were muck more aggressive themselves

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The bobo doll studies suggest that children are likely to

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Imitate (model) acts of violence if they observe these in an adult role model

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It is also the case that modelling aggressive behaviour is more likely if

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Such behaviour is seen to be rewarded

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Neither classical conditioning nor operant conditioning can offer a

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Comprehensive account of human learning on their own because cognitive factors are omitted

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Humans and animals store information about

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The behaviour of others and use this to make judgements about when it is appropriate to perform certain actions

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Social learning theory provides a more

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Complete explanation of human learning than the behaviourist approach by recognising the role of mediational processes

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Many of Bandura’s ideas were developed through

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Observation of children’s behaviour in a lab setting and this raises the problem of demand characteristics

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The main purpose of the bobo doll is

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To hit it

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Because the bobo doll is designed to be hit, maybe the children were acting

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How they were expecting to act with the toy that they were given

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Because the bobo doll is designed to be hit, this means that Bandura’s study tells us

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Little about how children actually learn aggression in everyday life

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A consistent finding in the bobo doll experiment was that

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Boys showed more aggression than girls, regardless of the specifics of the experimental condition

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The boys may have been more violent because of differences in levels of

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Testosterone which is present in greater quantities in boys and is also linked to aggression

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The difference in testosterone levels means that Bandura may have underplayed the importance of

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Biological factors in social learning

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Social learning principles may account for how

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Children learn from other people around them as well as through the media and this can explain how cultural norms are transmitted

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Social learning principles have proved useful in understanding a

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Range of behaviours such as how children come to understand their gender role by imitating role models

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The biological approach can only explain

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Universal behaviours because human biological processes do not change with culture

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Bandura emphasised

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Reciprocal determinism

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Reciprocal determinism

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We are influenced by our environment but we also exert an influence upon it through the behaviours we choose to perform

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Reciprocal determinism suggests there is some

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Free will in the way that we behave

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Reciprocal determinism is a more

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Realistic and flexible position than is suggested by the behaviourist approach as it recognises the role we play in shaping our own environment