Aqa A level psychology

• Social learning theory suggests that we can learn from observing others
• Bandura's Bobo doll experiment showed that children could imitate aggressive behaviour they had observed, but only if the model was rewarded or not punished.
• Bandura's Bobo doll experiment showed that children who watched an adult aggressively towards a bobo doll were more likely to imitate this behaviour than those who did not see it
• Bandura's Bobo doll experiment showed that children who watched an adult being aggressive towards a Bobo doll were more likely to be aggressive themselves when they played with it later on
• Social learning theory suggests that we can learn from observing others
• Bandura's Bobo doll experiment suggested that social learning is important because children are able to observe and copy behaviours they have seen
• The three processes involved in Bandura's Social Learning Theory are attention, retention and motivation
• Attention refers to how much notice someone takes of what happens around them
• Retention is important as we must retain information about how to behave in certain situations
• The cognitive approach focuses on how people think about their experiences and interpret them
• A schema is an organised set of beliefs or ideas which helps us make sense of the world
• Observational learning occurs when individuals pay attention to models and their actions, remember these actions and use them at some point in the future
• Motivation involves the desire or need to perform a behaviour