Social Learning Theory A01

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    • SLT
      Social Learning Theory
    • Social Learning Theory
      • Learning takes place in a social context
      • Occurs through observation of the behaviour of others and the rewards or punishments observed for the behaviour
      • This is known as vicarious reinforcement
      • Other people act as models and the characteristics of the models influence the likelihood of imitation of the behaviour
      • Learning and Performance are not the same activities
    • Mediational Processes affecting production of behaviour
      • Attention - watching behaviour
      • Retention - thinking about it/remembering
      • Motor reproduction - thinking about ones own performance ability to perform the behaviour
      • Motivation - the will to perform behaviour, often due to observed reward
    • Reciprocal determinism

      We are influenced by our environment, but we also have an influence upon it ourselves - this is soft determinism, with an element of free will
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