Social-cognitive Learning Flashcards
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What is a cognitive map?
A mental representation of the spatial characteristics of a familiar environment. For example, you can picture how your house looks in your mind and could probably walk through it with your eyes closed.
Discuss Tolman’s rat maze experiment.
Rats initially sent through a basic maze with food at the end. Then the same rats were sent through a different maze and would try to go the same way but it did not work. They eventually found the food after trial and error.
Discuss Tolman’s experiment that demonstrates latent learning.
Three groups of rats in maze.
Group A had no food reward and just explored the maze each day.
Group B had a food reward at the end of the maze each day. Quickly learned how to do the maze.
Group C had no reward until day 11, and then after that, were just as good at getting through the maze as Group B. This is the latent learning.
What is latent learning?
It means “hidden learning”
Learning occurring with the direct experience of rewards and punishments.
What is observational learning?
Learning by observing a model or receiving verbal instructions. Learning without any first hand experience.
Summarise Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment
Children watched a film of an adult beating up a doll. The adult was either rewarded, punished or received no consequences for this behaviour. After the film. the children were left to play and if they reproduced the specific behaviour, it would be noted. Boys more likely to reproduce behaviour and model punished less likely to repeat. Importantly, when the children were incentivised to repeat the behaviour, they all could meaning that learning had occurred.
