slt

• how can a fear of lifts after being trapped be explained

  classical conditioning

  associate lift with being trapped

  neutral stimulus now has a conditioned fear
• how can someone replicating a behaviour after seeing someone be rewarded for it be explained

  social learning theory

  observational learning

  learning through observation and imitation of a model

  they saw reward and imitated the behaviour
• how can you use reinforcement to train a rat


  positive reinforcement

  behaviour received a positive outcome

  strengthens the behaviour

  give it a treat when it leaves the cage

  negative reinforcement

  behaviour to escape/avoid consequences/ bad actions happening

  give it a shock that only stops when out of cage
• what are the mediational processes


  attention

  retention

  reproduction

  motivation
• who made social learning theory 


  Albert Bandura
• what is social learning theory 


  learning through observation and imitation of a model
• what is a model 


  those we observe
• what are live models


  those around you
• what is a symbolic model


  people in the media or characters
• what is identification 


  have to identify in order to use them as a model
• what is the bobo doll study


  two groups of children shown either an adult playing aggressively or peacefully with the bobo doll

  children where then left to play with it and observed
• results of bobo doll study 


  non aggressive - children were non aggressive

  aggressive = the children became aggresive
• how does gender affect bobo doll study results


  if child observed a person of the same sex being either agressive or peaceful they are more likely to be aggressive or peaceful too
• what happend as application of the study 


  censorship of media as children imitate violence
• what does attention mean in the context of meditational processes


  pay attention
• what does retention mean in the context of meditational processes


  form a memory of it
• what does reproduction mean in the context of meditational processes


  physically copying it
• what does motivation mean in the context of meditational processes


  why someone wants to do something (the consequences)
• what are the 2 types of reinforcement 


  vicarious reinforcement

  intrinsic reinforcement
• what is vicarious reinforcement 


  where you look at the consequences of anothers behaviour to work out whether you should so it

  (learning through the consequences of others behaviour)
• what's Intrinsic reinforcement 


  pride satisfaction sense of accomplishment
• + of slt


  has real world applications

  slt is the idea that we learn through observation and imitation of models

  proposed by Bandura who found that children learn aggression from others

  it is applied in the world through censorship of media and movies such as rating and watershed which restricts violence
• + of slt

  scientific

  falsifiable

  can be repeated

  Bandura is replicable as it was standardised

  as all children in aggressive group saw same behaviour

  results are true

  can be used to explain behaviour

  can be repeated
• -ve slt


  environmentally reductionist

  ignores other factors

  believes that we learn solely through observation and imitation

  Bandura didn't take into account gender or personality in his experience

  just believed they learnt aggression through observation and imitation

  behaviour is then not understood and explained completely
• + slt


  not anthropomorphic

  so results arent taken from animals and applied

  takes into account our processing
• + slt 


  goes beyond stimulus and response

  thinks about internal processes