Behaviourism and SLT

• SLT recognises learner plays an active role in their learning-

  -Chose who to attend to, chose which behaviour to remember, when and where to reproduce behaviour, how to respond to consequences of behaviour

  -In contrast, BEHAVIOURISM assumes that learner simply responds passively to its environment
• SLT recognises difference between acquisition and performance of behaviour -

  -Possible to observe behaviour, remember and add it to our repertoire, but never produce it

  -BEHAVIOURISM argues that performance and learning are the same thing and a behaviour has only been learned if its used
• SLT recognises that behaviours can become fixed -

  -Bandura calls these fixed behaviours 'internalised', if they have been imitated and reinforced enough

  -If BEHAVIOURISM were correct, our behaviour would constantly change in response to new reinforcement
• SLT recognises that reinforcement is an indirect process-

  -Most obvious in vicarious reinforcement where learner is motivated by reinforcement of their models as if they were being reinforced themselves, but even reinforcement they receive themselves is less direct than in BEHAVIOURISM because its mediated by cognitive factors, What is reinforcing one person may not be reinforcing to another
• SLT research only involves measurement of observable behaviour -

  -Majority is done in controlled laboratory experiments, but unlike BEHAVIOURISM its ppts are almost always humans and its experimental findings are supported by natural observations
• Both are nomothetic meaning they generate laws of behaviour that apply to all people, use a large sample