Psychology a level

• Social learning theory suggests we can learn from observing others
• Bandura's Bobo doll experiment showed that children could imitate aggressive behaviour they had observed
• Retention refers to the ability to remember what has been learned
• Observational learning is the process by which people acquire new behaviours or knowledge by watching others
• Interference occurs when new memories interfere with existing ones
• Decay happens as memories fade away over time if not rehearsed
• Forgetting is when information is lost over time, this may be due to interference or decay
• Decay is the gradual fading away of memory traces over time