Albert Bandura

Social Learning Theory

Albert Bandura

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1- Who is Albert Bandura?

2- What is Social Learning Theory?

3- What are the Mediational Processes?

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Who is Albert Bandura?

He was a Canadian-American. He graduated in three years, in 1949, with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia, winning the Bolocan Award in psychology, and then moved to the then-epicenter of psychology, the University of Iowa, from where he obtained his M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1952. Bandura came to support a style of psychology that sought to investigate psychological phenomena through repeatable, experimental testing. In 1953 he got a job teaching a social psychology professor at Standford University. He had a wife and 2 kids. *He is most famous for his Bobo Doll Study. In which he observed kids ability to learn from the obervation of adults.

What is the Social Learning Theory?

Social learning theory is the study of learned behaviors through the observation, modeling, and imitating of new behaviors that are reinforced by other people, or “models.” As a result, new behaviors either continue or cease depending on how they are reinforced or rewarded in the social environment. Ex: A child learning to walk by watching others walk.

What are the Mediational Processes?

Attention

Focusing on the modeler's observable behavior

Reproduction

A complex process which includes the mental and physical ability of the person to copy the observed behaviour while doing a physical task

Retention

Momorizing or remembering the observed behavior

Modivation

The want or need to imatate the observed behavior

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Investigate specific examples where Bandura’s social learning theory has been applied successfully in educational settings, discussing the outcomes and implications for learning.

Bandura's theory is used in classrooms to help teachers get attention through cues, help with retention. practice reproduction, and give positive reinfocrement to help with modivation. Teachers (esspecially those in younger education) can model the behavior they want to see, this will help the students remember the behavior better and want to do it in the future. They can also provide positive reinforcement like pizza parties, stickers, candy, ect. to help with student modivation.

Analyze the influence of individual differences, such as personality traits and cognitive abilities, on the effectiveness of observational learning, considering how these factors may moderate the impact of modeling.

Observational learning only works if the person observing can mentally understand what is going on and can physically replicate it. If the person observing the behavior is not able to mentally understand what is happening, observaltional learning will not be helpful. For example, newborn babies do not have the cognitve ability to watch and copy a behavior because they do not understand what is going on. They also are not physically able to imatate the observed behavior becasue they are not fully in control of thier body yet. Modivation also plays a big part in observational learning. If the person observing the behavior is more stubborn it will be harder for that person to learn through observational behavior. But if you had a "people pleaser" they are more likely to pick things up through observqational learning. Someone who has a hard time concentrating on something will also struggle with observational learning becasue they can not focus on the behavoir, thus not learning it/retaining it.

Investigate the application of Bandura's social learning theory in the context of online platforms and digital media, exploring how observational learning occurs in virtual environments.

Vitual enviroment and access to the internet let people more easily access content than ever before. Having access to essentually unlimited content lets you learn through observational learning without having to leave your home. You also have access to more experiences online than you could in real life. For example you could play a video game about being in a war. From playing this game you cloud learn that violence is an okay way to deal with problems in life. By watching aggressive media, you could learn to imatate that aggression. Whether you notice it or not.

Reflect on the enduring legacy of Albert Bandura in the field of psychology, discussing the continued relevance of his theories and their implications for contemporary research and practice.

Albert Bandur's findings were a turning point in psychology from behaviourist theories of learning through punishment and reward, to theories that recognised the importance of environment and social context. In the Bobo doll experiment the kids were not given any incntives to beat up the doll, they were just imatating the modeled behavior. Social learning theory can have a number of real-world applications. For example, it can be used to help researchers understand how aggression and violence might be transmitted through observational learning (like in media). Researchers can also use social learning theory to investigate and understand ways that positive role models can be used to encourage desirable behaviors and to make social changes.

Lilly is 4 years old. She is watching her mom pick up her toys and put them away. Lilly is not focusing on anything else and is not sick or sleepy. All her attention is going to watching her mom pick up toys and put them away.

Lilly is physically able to pick up her toys and because her mom does it, she wants to do it too. So she picks up and puts away her toys just like her mom did.

After they had watched their video(if they had one) they were taken, individualy, to a seperate room with fun toys. When they started to play, the kids were told that they were the very best toys and they were going to save them for the other children. They then proceeded to take away the toys

After seeing her mom pick up and put away her toys multiple times, Lilly remembers how she does it.

Lilly is physically able to pick up her toys and because her mom does it, she wants to do it too. So she picks up and puts away her toys just like her mom did.

72 kids ages 3-6 were split evenly into 3 groups. The first group was shown a video of an adult beating up the bobo doll. The second group was shown a video of an adult who was not agressive with the doll and the thrid group was not shown a video. This group wad the control group.

Lilly is physically able to pick up her toys and because her mom does it, she wants to do it too. So she picks up and puts away her toys just like her mom did.

Lilly is physically able to pick up her toys and because her mom does it, she wants to do it too. So she picks up and puts away her toys just like her mom did.

Then the kids were taken to a room that had some non-aggressive toys and some aggressive toys. They were allowed to play freely in the room for 20 minutes. They were observed from a one-way mirror. Observations were made every 5 seconds.

Lilly wants to pick up her toys like her mom does becasue when she is done picking up the toys they watch a movie together and Lilly likes watching movies with her mom.

Lilly is physically able to pick up her toys and because her mom does it, she wants to do it too. So she picks up and puts away her toys just like her mom did.

When the experiment was over they found that the kids who had been exposed to the video with the adult baeting up the Bobo doll were more aggressive than those that did not.This shows that the children learned from observational learning by watching the video. * They also found that the girls tended to be more physically aggressive, while the boys were typically more verbally abusive.