The Learning Approach - SLT

• What is the Social Learning Theory? What does it propose?

  A learning approach that combines the behaviourist ideas of learning through our enviroment and the cognitive ideas of involvement of internal mental processes. It proposes that new behaviours can be acquired by observing and imitating eachother.
• What is Vicarious Reinforcement?

  Indirect encouragement of behaviour through observation of consequences for other peoples behaviour.
• What does Vicarious reinforcement mean?

  When you learn about the consequences of behaviours from others you adjust your own behaviour accordingly.
• Define Social Learning theory.


  SLT is a psychological perseptive that emphasizes the importance of observation and imitation in the acquisition of new behaviours. It suggests induviduals learn through observing others behaviours, attitudes and outcomes.
• Who is the key theorist of the Social Learning Theory?

  Albert Bandura.
• What famous experiement did Albert Bandura conduct?

  The Bobo doll experiment.
• What does the Bobo doll experiment demonstrate?

  how children imitate aggresive behaviours they observe in adults.
• What type of learning does the SLT emphasize, and what does this involve?

  Observational learning, which involves learning by watching and imitating others.
• What are 4 the processes that occur within observational learning?

  Attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation.
• What does modelling refer to within SLT?

  The process of imitating the behaviour of others.
• When are induviduals more likely to imitate the behaviours of someone?

  If the model is someone they admire or identify with, and if they observe positive consequences from the behaviour.
• Define Vicarious Reinforcement according to SLT

  Induviduals are more motivated to imitate behaviours based on the consequences experienced by the models. If the model is rewarded for their behaviour, the observer is more likely to imitate it.