social learning theory

• what is the social learning theory 


  states behaviour is made through interactions with the environment as well as observing behaviour or others
• what is imitation

  when the observer replicates a behaviour observed from a role model
• what is identification

  when an individual is influenced by another as they want to be like them
• what is vicarious reinforcement 


  learning a behaviour through observing the positive and negative consequences of the actions of others
• what are the mediations processes

  attention

  retention

  reproduction

  motivation
• what is attention 


  for a behaviour to occur is had to grab out attention
• what is retention 


  it needs to be remembered to be imitated
• what is reproduction 


  whether we are able to perform the behaviour
• what is motivation 


  if the rewards outweigh the cost, the behaviour is more likely to occur
• what was the aim of banduras bobo doll


  to investigate aggression from an adult role model to a child observing
• what was the sample of banduras bobo doll


  36 boys and 36 girls aged between 3-6
• what groups were the children split into in banduras experiment


  1. 24 children were shown an aggressive model
  2. 24 children shown a non aggressive model
  3. 24 children shown no model
• what was the method of banduras bobo doll


  Partials placed on a room one at a time and observed the role model. In the room was a bobo doll, a toy gun, hammer, and neutral toys. The agressive model hit the bobo doll and shouted at it.
• what were the findings of bandueas experiment 


  The children who observed the aggressive role model were more likely to be physically aggressive. The children who saw the non aggressive model or who were in controlled conditions were more likely to play with the neutral toys. The boys were more likely to be physical and the females were more likely to be verbal
• a strength of banduras experiment 


  children in controlled conditions didn’t see any model meaning their reactions were not influenced
• a weakness of baduras experiment 


  low ecological validity due to it being in a laboratory setting as well as ethical issues with caused long term aggression