Social learning theory

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    • Who is involved in the SLT
      Bandura
    • roles of mediating processes
      attention, retention, reproduction and motivation
    • strengths of the SLT
      application to real life, can explain unpleasant behaviour
    • weaknesses of SLT
      over reliant on lab studies and underestimates biological factors
    • identification
      when an individual is influenced by another because they are in some way similar or want to be like them.
    • modelling
      when someone is influential on another in some way they are referred to as the model
    • imitation
      when an individual observes a behaviour is reinforced from a role model and copies it
    • vicarious reinforcement
      the reinforcement the role model receives.
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