Social Learning Perspective - Bandura
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- Social Learning Perspective - Bandura
- Reinforcement - The consequences of behaviour can influence learning.
- Reward
- Encouragement
- Punishment
- Discouragment
- Modelling
- Observing behaviour and imitating it. Behaviours are learnt here even when they are not rewarded or encouraged.
- Extracting cognitions
- Rules of behaviour or beliefs of how to behave. These are formed through people looking for paterns or rules in behaviour they observe.
- Unlike Skinner and other behavioursits, social learning theorists recognise the importance of cognition.
- Rules of behaviour or beliefs of how to behave. These are formed through people looking for paterns or rules in behaviour they observe.
- Agents of socialisation
- Social learning emphasises learning from other people e.g. parents discouraging behaviours.
- Prosocial and antisocial behaviour
- A child is brought up with parents/older siblings who smoke, they may then think it is ok for them to smoke as well, leading them to model the behaviour.
- This could then be reinforced by offering the individual cigarettes, leading to the individual extracting the cognition that it is ok to smoke.
- A child is brought up with parents/older siblings who smoke, they may then think it is ok for them to smoke as well, leading them to model the behaviour.
- In conclusion he emphasised that for behaviour to be imitated it must be rewarded in some way.
- Vicarous reinforcement describes how individuals experience reinforcement indirectly by observing others being reinforced.
- Bobo doll experiment
- Modelling of aggression supporting evidence.
- Evaluation
- Positive features
- Can explain sex differences in gender roles
- Well supported with research evidence
- Its an extension and improvement of Skinners learning theory.
- Takes into account cognitions.
- Negative features
- Ignores discovery learning
- Ignores biology and genetic factors.
- Positive features
- Evidence
- Supporting
- Langolis and Downs (1980) sex differences
- Contradictory
- Berko (1958) Language acquisition
- Supporting
- Reinforcement - The consequences of behaviour can influence learning.
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