SLT

• Bandura

  •He argued that classical and operant conditioning could not account for all human learning.He believed that there are important mental processes that lie between the stimulus and response
• SLT suggests that behaviour is learned from experience, but in a social context
• BoBo Doll

  experiment

  
• Vicarious Reinforcement Obtained or undergone at second hand through sympathetic participation in another's experiences
• SLT

  Learning takes place through observations. Other people act as role models who carry out, or model. People then imitation their rolemodel. When the role model models the behaviour, observational learning occurs.If the role model is rewarded for their behaviour, imitation is more likely and if they are punished for their behaviour, imitation is less likely (vicarious reinforcement).
• Mediational processes

  • Attention
  • Retention
  • Reproduction
  • Motivation
• Attention

  • Noticing and paying attention to the behaviour of the person they want to imitate
• Retention

  • Remembering the behaviour so that they can do the same
• Reproduction

  • Consideration of our own ability to perform the behaviour
• Motivation


  • The will or desire to perform the behaviour (usually linked to vicarious reinforcement)
• •There are cognitive processes occur between stimulus (the observation of the role model’s behaviour) and response (imitation) that affect whether the learned behaviour is produced. These are called mediational processes: