Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bandura's Social Learning Theory
- Learning by observation develops early in development: as early as 14 months
- Television violence has been seen to "model" children to be more violent
- Assumptions of this theory:
- People are active agents
- Emphasizes cognitive
processes
- Language ability
- Observational
learning
- Purposeful behaviour
- Self-analysis
- Emphasizes social processes
- Behaviour is situation specific
- Reciprocal determinism
- Bandura was interested in…
- Behaviours acquisition vs performance
- Acquisition reinforcement not essential
- Performance reinforcement
essential
- Stages in observational learning process
- Attention
- To learn, you need to be paying attention
- Pay attention eg: if model is interesting or novel = positive effect on
learning
- Not pay attention eg: distracted, not
interesting = negative effect on learning
- Retention
- Store information
- The ability to pull up information later and act on it is vital to observational learning
- Reproduction
- Perform the behaviour
you observed
- Further practice of the learned behaviour leads
to improvement and skill advancement
- Motivation/Reinforcement
- You have to be motivated to imitate
the behaviour that has been modeled
- Reinforcement and punishment play an
important role in motivation (either directly
experienced or observing someone else be
reinforced/punished – vicarious conditioning)