APPROACHES- Social learning theory

Question 1

What does SLT state

Answer 1

things take place within the organism that mediate between S and R (stimulus and response) the persons internal and mental processes will affect their behaviour (response)

Question 2

What are the main assumptions of SLT

Answer 2

-People learn through observation and imitation of others within a social context
-learning occurs directly through classical conditioning and operant conditioning but also indirectly through vicarious learning
- combines the behaviourist and cognitive approaches
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Question 3

What tow approaches does SLT combine

Answer 3

combines the behaviourist and cognitive approaches

Question 4

What are the main research methods?

Answer 4

observation and lab experiments

Question 5

What are the key aspects of a role model

Answer 5

-similar gender, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic background
- somebody successful (leads to vicarious reinforcement
-somebody who increases your popularity, success and confidence

Question 6

What re mediational processes

Answer 6

ndividuals do not automatically observe the behaviour of a role model there is some thought prior to this

Question 7

What are the 4 mediational processes

Answer 7

-attention
-retention
-reproduction
-motivation

Question 8

Define attention

Answer 8

or a behaviour to be imitates it has to grab our attention

Question 9

Define retention

Answer 9

the behaviour may be noticed but is not always remembered, preventing imitation. (It is essential that a memory of the behaviour is formed for it to be performed by the observer

Question 10

Define reproduction

Answer 10

we see the behaviour on a daily basis but imitating it is not always possible we may be limited by physical ability, confidence or opportunity in life so even if we wish to perform the behaviour we cant

Question 11

Define motivation

Answer 11

the rewards and punishments that follow a behaviour will be learnt by the observer if the perceived rewards outweigh the negative consequences then the behaviour will be imitated

Question 12

Define self efficacy

Answer 12

a person’s belief that you can be successful when carrying out a particular task

Question 13

Define vicarious reinforcement

Answer 13

a learning process in which an individual behaves in a certain way because they have observed someone else being punished or rewarded for that behaviour which may motivate us to reproduce this behaviour

Question 14

What was the procedure of banduras bobo doll study

Answer 14

-children observed aggressive or non aggressive behaviour adult behaviour and were tested for imitative learning in the absence of the model

Question 15

What was the aim of the Bobo doll study?

Answer 15

to test how likely it was that children would imitate aggressive/non aggrieve role models

Question 16

What were the findings of the study?

Answer 16

-children who observed the theagggre3sive model reproduced the aggressive behaviour, they were physically and verbally aggressive (pretending to shoot the doll with a gun and saying pow)
- children who observed the non-aggresiive model were

Question 17

What were the 2 strengths of the study?

Answer 17

-reliable- experimental evidence (bobo doll, was repeated a few years later and results were the same
-Practical application-having ages restrictions on films and video games because of bobo doll aggression so limits negative behaviour

Question 18

What are the 3 limitations?

Answer 18

-only tested children right after exposure- not clear whether children repeated these behaviours after they left the lab

-novelty do the Bobo doll- the children may have not played with the Bobo doll before so just imitated how they saw the model play with it

-too simplified- biological explanation, behaviour is too complex to explain with just one approach and SLT can’t explain all aspects of behaviour