A03

• A03; comprehensive approach

  • recognises the importance of cognitive factors in learning, operant and classical conditioning cannot explain learning on their own
  • for example, animals and humans store info about behaviour and make a judgement via mediational processes ....
  • however there is little reference to the biological approach eg candidate genes making someone more aggressive
  • there for SLT takes more comprehensive stance but influence of biological factors understated
• A03: RWA to explaining cultural differences

  • identification and vicarious reinforcement account for how children learn from people around them
  • this explains how cultural norms are transmitted down generations eg see mother doing behaviour(they identify with mother) so copy it
  • increases value of approach due to high external val and accountability for real life

  also can be used to address and alter toxic social norms such as homophobia
• A03; based on lab studies

  • bandura- lacks mundane realism, aggression not found in lab setting, low ecological validity and tells us little about how kids learn aggression in real life
  • BUT high control over cvs and evs allows standardisation...
  • observation of young people in banduras research may lead to DCs meaning children in research may have just been acting in a way which was expected of them