AO1 and AO2

• aim of the study was it investigate if social behaviour can be acquired by observation and imitation
• was a lab experiment
• an aggressive model was shown to 24 children
• a non-aggressive model was shown to 24 children
• then there was no model shown to 24 children
• the children were then put in a playroom to see what behaviours they would do towards the bobo doll
• bandura found that those who observed the aggressive model made more immative responses than those who watched the non-aggressive model
• found that boys were more physically aggressive than girls but there was little difference with verbal aggression
• boys were more likely to immitate same sex models that girls
• came to the conclusion that children are able to learn social behaviour such as aggression through process of observational learning
• one of the assumptions to SLT is that behaviour is learned from experience, observation and imitation of others
• another assumption of SLT is that learning also occurs directly through operant and classical conditioning but also indirectly through vicarious rienforcement
• theory says you pay more attention to certain people in your environment and they become your models and they tend to be those who are important to you
• what are the 4 factors that determine if you copy behaviour?

  attention, remember, motivated, skills
• what is vicarious rienforcement?

  when we observe someone else being positively or negatively rienforced for behaving in a certain way which makes us want to imitate others behaviour to receive praise