SLT AO1

• What did Albert Bandura agree with?

  he agreed with behaviourists that behaviour is learned from experience
• what did bandura propose?

  SLT proposed that people learn through imitation and observation of others
• What did SLT suggest about earning occuring through

  SLT suggested that learning occurs through classical and operant conditioning directly but also indirectly
• vicarious reinforcement


  reinforcement which is not directly experienced but occurs through observing others being reinforced for a behaviour
• when does imitation occur

  if behaviour is seen to be rewarded rather than punished
• what is SLT often described as and why

  the bridge between the behaviorist and cognitive approach

  • as it focuses on how mental factors are involved in learning
• how many mediational processes did bandura identify

  4

  • attention
  • retention
  • motor reproduction
  • motivation
• attention


  the extent to which we notice certain behaviours
• retention


  how well behaviour is remembered
• motor reproduction


  the ability of the observer to perform the behaviour
• motivation


  the will to perform the behaviour - determined by whether behaviour was rewarded or punished
• identification


  when an observer associates themselves with a role model and wants to be like the role model
• banduras research


  • recorded behaviour of young children who watched an adult behave in an aggressive way towards a bobo doll
  • the adult hit the doll with a hammer and shouted abuse at it
  • then the children behaved more aggressively towards the doll than those who observed the non aggressive adult