Social Learning Theory

• Behaviorism is classified as a learning theory because it suggests behaviors are learned through stimuli-response mechanisms
• Behaviorism argues that rewards for behavior increase the likelihood of repetition.
• What is the likely effect of punishment on behavior according to behaviorism?

  Decreased repetition
• Social learning theorists like Albert Bandura argue that observation of rewards or punishments is enough to modify behavior
• Social learning theory emphasizes the role of internal mental processes, which behaviorism rejects.
• Who is the most prominent social learning theorist?

  Albert Bandura
• Match the social learning theory concepts with their definitions:

  Vicarious reinforcement ↔️ Observing someone rewarded for behavior

  Vicarious punishment ↔️ Observing someone punished for behavior

  Live models ↔️ People known personally

  Symbolic models ↔️ Characters from media
• Models are most likely to be imitated if they are seen as high status
• Mediational processes must occur between observing behavior and imitating it.
• Arrange the mediational processes in the correct order:

  1️⃣ Attention

  2️⃣ Retention

  3️⃣ Reproduction

  4️⃣ Motivation
• What must happen for retention to occur in social learning theory?

  Memory of behavior
• Motivation in mediational processes involves considering potential rewards or punishments
• Learning and performance are the same thing in social learning theory.

  False
• What was the aim of Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment in 1961?

  Test modeling of aggression
• Children who observed an aggressive model were more likely to display aggression
• Symbolic models, such as cartoons, can influence behavior according to social learning theory.
• What did Bandura's 1965 study demonstrate about vicarious reinforcement?

  Punished models reduce aggression
• Bandura's Bobo Doll study is criticized for lacking ecological validity
• Social learning theory is more scientific than behaviorism because it emphasizes direct observation of mediational processes.

  False
• What is reciprocal determinism in social learning theory?

  Behavior and environment influence each other