SLT approach

• when did SLT emerge 


  1970’s
• what are the key assumptions of SLT


  behaviourist believe that all behaviour is learned

  assumes that behaviour is learned through observing and imitating role models in a social context
• what is modelling 


  when an individual ( model ) carries out a behaviour and we observe them doing this
• what are the 2 different types of models 


  live

  symbolic
• what is a live model 


  an actual person demonstrating the behaviour in real life
• what is a symbolic model


  real or fictional characters displaying behaviours in books / TV etc
• what are some examples of symbolic models 


  a fictional character

  a celebrity

  a person in social media
• what do models demonstrate 


  examples of behaviour
• what is identification 


  when we see ourselves as having something in common with the model e. g. gender
• what does some research suggest about identification 


  we are more likely to imitate same sex models to ourselves or models that have a similar status
• why is this an important determinant of imitation

  identification w the model suggests that we are like let to experinece the same rewards / consequences as the models
• what does SLT propose

  all behaviours thag are observed will be learnt but we won’t neccesarily imitate them all
• why will we not imitate all behaviours we learn and observe

  due to cognitive factors
• what are mediational processes 


  the thought before imitation takes / doesn’t take place
• when do meditational processes occur

  between observing behaviour and imitating it or not
• what are the 4 mediational processes 


  attention

  retention

  reproduction

  motivation
• what can this be remembered as

  ARRM
• what is attention 


  person notices the behaviour
• what is an example of attention


  watching someone push out of the way for sweets
• what is retention 


  how well the person remembers the behaviour
• what is an example of retention 


  remember how someone did a calculation
• what is reproduction 


  person performs and imitates the behaviour
• what is an example of reproduction


  a child performs a sports trick they saw someone else do
• what is motivation


  the person is deciding whether they’re willing to imitate the behaviour and whether they believe they should
• what is an example of motivation 


  deciding whether time out is worth the sweets
• what is vicarious reinforcement 


  having an indirect experience of a reward
• what is an example of vicarious reinforcement 


  model recieves a reward
• what does it provide when an individual receives vicarious reinforcement 


  provides feedback on the consequences of the behaviour and they judge for themselves the likelihood of experiencing those same outcomes if they imitate the behaviour
• when was banduras research conducted

  the 1960’s
• what did bandura design an experiment to test 


  SLT
• what was the aim of banduras research 


  investigate whether children imitated the behaviour that an adult did if they witnessed it
• how many participants of each gender were there 


  36
• what ages were the participants

  between 3-6 years
• how many conditions were there 


  3
• what was the first condition

  the adult model behaved aggressively with the bobo doll and exhibited aggressive noises
• what was the second condition 


  the model behaved calmly and played in a calm manner
• what was the third condition 


  no model at all
• what happened to all the pps after they were taken into their allocated condition 


  all children were taken into a room with toys and the bobo doll and researchers stood behind a one way mirror judging their levels of aggression
• what were the results of the experiment 


  people in the first condition were aggressive to the bobo doll and the pps in the other condition ignored it and played with the toys
• who was the most aggression exhibited by 


  boys who has been exposed to an aggressive male