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What is the Social Learning Theory?

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The belief that new patterns of behaviour could be acquired by observing the behaviour of others as well

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What is referred to as modelling?

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Individuals that carry out the attitude or behaviour to be learned.

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What is a live model?

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A parent, a teacher at school it a member of a peer group.

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What is a symbolic model?

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Somebody portrayed in the media

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What is imitation?

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The imitation of attitudes and behaviours that are modelled by parents. The child can rapidly acquire patterns of behaviour.

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What is identification?

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Refers to the extent to which an individual relates to a model and feels that they are similar.

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What is vicarious reinforcement?

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A suggestion that individuals do not need to experience rewards or punishments directly in order to learn. They can just observe the consequences experienced by a model and then make judgements as to the likelihood of experiencing these outcomes themselves.

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What are the four mediational processes?

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  1. Attention: The individual notices someone in their environment.
  2. Retention: The individual remembers what they have observed.
  3. Motor reproduction: The individual replicated the behaviour shown by the model.
  4. Motivation: The individual seeks to demonstrate the behaviour that they have seen.
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What are evidence that supports the Social Learning Theory?

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Bandura carried out an experiment involving children who observer aggressive or non aggressive adult models.

About one-third of the children who observed the aggressive model repeated the models verbal response while none of the children who observed the non-aggressive model exhibited virtually no aggressive remarks.

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What are the strengths of the Social Learning Theory?

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  1. Increases understanding in violent and criminal behaviour
    (Ullrich [2003] supports this claim in a review of the literature, finds that the strongest cause of violent behaviour in adolescence was association with delinquent peer groups.)
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What are the limitations of the Social Learning Theory?

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Disregards other potential influences on behaviour such as gender role expectations.