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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?

Albert Bandura is a Canadian American social cognitive psychologist. Known famously for his 'bobo doll' experiment, Bandura is a source of the social learning theory. Bandura had been given the title of one of the most influential psychologists in histroy, up until his death in 2021. Bardura taught at Standford University, and it considered 1 of 4 of the more influential psychologists, only behind B.F. Skinner, Sigmund Freud, and Jean Piaget.

What is the Social Learning Theory?

So what is this social learning theory? The social learning theory in Bandura words, is a way of learning through observation, imitation, and modeling. These things are influenced by things such as attention, emotions, and appeal. The way that is happens, is when one observes anothers behaviors, leading to imitation. This suggest that what we consider behaviors, are learned through conditioning. Bandura says that we either directly observe behaviors, (ex. social interaction,) or indirectly, (ex. observes through media.)

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If you get an A on a test afetr studying hard, you will keep studying hard to get the reward if getting an A

If someone grew up in a organized house, they will have an organized house when they are older.

Remembering how to do the math problem learned yesterday that is on today's homework.

Noticing if someone is throwing their garbage away or leaving it where they previously were.

What are the Mediational Processes?

Attention: The noticing of behavior.

Reproduction: if you are able to preform the behavior.

Retention: the remeberence of the behavior.

Motivation: the percieved rewards outweoghs the percieved cost.

The Bobo Doll Study. The bobo doll study was conducted by Albert Bandura, in which children participants are able to observe and learn behaviors that they see adults perform on the bobo doll, such as aggression. The adults were told to face the doll with such anger, and allow the children to watch. When it was the childrens turn to face the doll, they reciprocated the behaviors of the adults.

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.

Our personality reflects us, and it can influence how we decide to work at our job, in school, and at home in front of our families. Two people are not the same, and if one wants to be like the other, their performance can impact us to imitate them. We might not take something like our education seriously after that. because those who we want to reflect, might not either. Now, you are not an original induvidual, you are attempting to parallel someone, and modelling requires induviduality, without that, you cannot express your self given identity.

Explore Bandura's contributions to understanding aggression and violence in the media, discussing the implications for societal attitudes and behaviors.

Through his bobo doll experiment, Badura gave af air warning to the media that children will imitate what they see, setting a clear line of behaviors that should be represented in the media. Whether the media be a magazine, or a TV show, Badura highlighted that the audience will take those attitudes personally for themselves. Essentially implyig that no matter what, these behaviors are learned, altering how we communicate, work with others, how we shift our culture, and work in our enviroments.

Explore the ethical considerations surrounding the use of modeling in advertising and media, analyzing the potential impact on individuals’ behaviors and attitudes.

Modeling has taken over eveybodys media feed, including those who have not been exposed to real world scenrios, leading to dysmophias. The first is misrepresentation, that fails to include diverse induviduals, leading for one's behavior to shift in ways that will make them think "XYZ is good, then ABC is bad." Despite this being as issue in itself already, this creates a new attitude, that something is supposed to look a certain way, and not even an appearence, but a lifestyle, creating an unsafe enviroment to grow up in, because it can often lead to unrealistic stereotypes. These sterotypes force induviduals to change their attitude to fit what they think is the "norm," altering their perception of community.

Discuss the potential limitations and criticisms of Bandura's social learning theory, considering alternative explanations for observational learning and behavior acquisition.

Badura faced a common critisism, that being their is simplification of complex ideas, and that he is reducing the internal factors and only focusing his attention to the observational or external factors, like learning. There are such limitations, such as the inability have had a way to observe behaviors, and contributions to reduce the replication of behaviors. The alternative route to the social learning theory, is behaviorism. Behvaiourism focuses on the same ideas of the social learning theory, but rather does not focus on the biggest critism of missing, that being internal factors.

What we can take away from ALbert Banduras effect on psychology is the imprint of the social learning theory and how it effects us in our real life thorugh in person interactions, and through a screen. It decides how we pay attention and observe other, whether we pick up the behaviors we see. The bobo doll experiment taught us that children take after the adults in their life, and that they pay attention, remember, and reproduce the behaviors they see. Through the use of modelling, one might leave their own identity to follow one of someone they care to imitate. Social influences can cause a crack in devloping a self given personality, resulting in unusual behaviors.

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