Social Learning Theory approach Flashcards
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What is the SLT?
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- A bridge between behaviourist and cognitive approach
- Aknowledges we might learn a behaviour but chose not to perform it ourselves
- Assumes all behaviourr is learned from the environment but does not take into account how people learn behaviour
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SLT definition
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- A way of explaining behaviour that includes both direct and indirect reinforcement combining learning theory with role of cognitive factors
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What is imitation?
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- Copying behaviours of others
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What is identification?
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- When an observer associates themselves with a role model and wants to be like them
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What is modelling
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- From observers perspective, modelling is the precise demnstration of a specific behaviour that may be imitated by observer
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What is vicarious reinforcement?
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- Not directly experienced but occurs through observing someone else being reinforced for their behaviour
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What are mediational processes?
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- Cognitive factors that influence learning and come between stimulus and response
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Core assumptions
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- Behvaiour is learned from experience and people in their environment are key to learning
- Accepts humans have a thought processes and have control over their behaviour
- Mind, behaviour and environment play a role in learning
- Learning occurs through a process of reinforcement
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Difference between behaviourism and cognitive factors
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- Behaviourism focuses on human behaviour in response to reward/ punishment
- Cognitive focuses on internal mental processes between stimulus and response
- 4 mediating cognitive factors: attention, retention, motivation and reproduction
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Bandura (1961) Bobo doll study
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- Children shown video of adults hitting bobo doll and shown 1 of 3 endings:
- Adult walking in and commenting positively
- Adult walking in and commenting negatively
- No comment made
- Then the kids individually left in room with bobo doll
- Results showed boys are more agressive than girls, vicarious reward had no effect on behaviour and vicarious punishment meant girls showed less of that behaviour
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Conclusion of Bandura study
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- Aggression is a behaviour that is imitated, vicarious reinforcement had no impact but vicarious punishment did
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Evaluation of Bandura study
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- May be extraneous variables like wtaching violent films
- Ethical issue as children exposed to violence
- Bobo doll designed to be hit, how else were they supposed to play with it?
- Bobo doll not real so we don’t know if the kids would hit real people, lowering the validity
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What are models?
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- People who influence behaviour
- May become a role model if seen to have similar characterstics to the observer like agee, sex, ethnicity and have a high status
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What are the types of models?
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- Live model (real)
- Symbolic model (not real, cartoon e.g.)
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How do humans learn through modelling?
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- By observing a behaviour and imitating it
- Attention, retention, motivation and reproduction
- An observer associates themselves with the model and wants to be like them. They observe their behaviour and remember it. They then decide if they have the motivation to reproduce or imitate the behaviour based on factors like age etc.
