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Understanding Human Behaviour
Social learning theory and the Bobo doll experiment
- 3 things to know
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Overview
Central claim of social learning theory, procedure of Bandura's Bobo doll experiment and vicarious reinforcement.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Who developed social learning theory?
State the central claim of social learning theory.
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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Who developed social learning theory?
Model answer
Albert Bandura, a Canadian-American psychologist working from the 1960s, developed social learning theory.
- 2
State the central claim of social learning theory.
Model answer
Social learning theory claims that people learn much of their behaviour by watching others and copying what they see, without needing to be reinforced themselves.
- 3
Define modelling.
Model answer
Modelling is the demonstration of a behaviour by another person, the model, whose actions an observer may then imitate.
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Describe the procedure of Bandura's Bobo doll experiment.
Model answer
Bandura had nursery-age children watch an adult either behave aggressively towards an inflatable Bobo doll or play quietly with other toys, and then observed each child alone in a room containing the same doll.
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What did Bandura find in the Bobo doll experiment?
Model answer
Bandura found that children who had watched the aggressive adult were far more likely to attack the doll and often copied the specific actions and words they had seen.
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What did Bandura's later version using film add to the findings?
Model answer
Bandura's later study showed that children imitated aggression seen on film as well as live, and that they copied it more when the model had been rewarded and less when the model had been punished.
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