SLT Flashcards

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Assumptions

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Behaviour is learnt from experience
Contrasts behaviourism, learned through observation & imitation of others (social)

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Vicarious
Reinforcement

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Reinforcement that isn’t directly experienced but occurs through observing someone else being reinforced for a behaviour

Observation leads too imitation if behaviour is vicariously reinforced

Bandura - Bobo doll experiment:
Involved exposing children to two different adult models; an aggressive model and a non-aggressive one. After witnessing the adult’s behaviour, the children would then be placed in a room without the model and were observed to see if they would imitate the behaviours they had witnessed earlier.

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Mediational processes

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Cognitive factors that influence learning and come between stimulus & response:

Attention - extent to which we notice behaviours
Retention - how well behaviour is remembered
Motor reproduction - ability of observer to perform behaviour
Motivation - will to perform behaviour, determined by if it was rewarded or punished

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Identification

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More likely to imitate role models you identify with (attractive, high status)

Process of imitating role model = modelling

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Strengths

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  • Cognitive factors
    Recognised important of cognitive factors in learning, suggests:
    More comprehensive account of learning than proposed by behaviourist approach
  • Real world application
    SLT can explain development of cultural differences - EG - in gender role
    Increases value of approach as can account for real world behaviour
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Weaknesses

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Lab studies
Evidence gathered through lab studies
Not applicable to real life

Demand characteristics -
Bobo doll is designed to be hit - low validity
Suggests research shows little about how children learn aggression in everyday life

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