SLT

• learning takes place by observing and imitating role models
• what are the two types of modelling - a role model demonstrates the behaviour to an observer - the observer then imitates what theyve seen
• imitation is the action of using someone/something as a role model
• what evidence supports the first slt assumption banduras bobo doll study
• one group of children observed an adult behaving in an aggresive way towards a bobo doll. the second group observed an adult behaving non aggresively towards the doll the children were then observed one at a time alone in a room with toys
• the results of bobo doll study showed that the children who observed the aggresive adult acted more aggressively than the other group towards the bobo doll
• banduras bobo doll study :) - high control of extraneous variables, cause and effect established :) - highly reliable, standardised :( - demand characteristics :( - low ecological validity
• vicarious reinforcement reinforcement which is not directly experienced but occurs through observing someone else being observed
• nature or nurture? nurture
• second assumption - there are 4 mediating cognitive processes between observing and imitating
• what are the 4 mediating cognitive processes - ARMM attention, retention, motivation, motor reproduction
• attention - focus on what role model is doing retention - rememeber what the role model did motivation - want to imitate the behaviour motor reproduction - physically able to produce the behaviour
• what is identification when an observer makes a specific attachment to a role model and wants to posess the same qualities and characteristics