1. The Social Learning Theory of Aggression
Miss Minaker

2. Social Learning Theory
Social learning is learning through observation, imitation and modelling or another person or role model.

3. Who do you look up to. Who is your role model
Who do you look up to? Who is your role model? Have you ever observed a behaviour that you have then copied?

4. Social Learning Theory
According the Bandura, there are 4 processes involved with Social Learning
Attention
Retention
Reproduction
Motivation
Mnemonic?

5. Example
Jane dyes her hair pink because her favourite celebrity has done so.
First Jane paid attention to what the celebrity had done
Jane then retained this information
Jane was capable of reproducing the behaviour of dying her hair
Jane was motivated to dye her hair pink and did so

6. Factors involved in SLT
The more similar the role model is to the observer, the more likely that the behaviour will be imitated
Same gender
Same age
Also, if the role model is seen in a positive light
High status
Likeable

7. Vicarious Learning Come up with an example for each of the following:
Vicarious reinforcement
Vicarious punishment
Vicarious extinction

8. Social Learning Theory
With the people around you, discuss how this theory could be applied to aggression
Using the 4 stages, how could a little girl imitate her older sister’s aggressive behaviour?
What other factors may have influenced her?

9. Evidence for social learning theory
Write up experiment

10. Other evidence
Speed date!

11. Evaluation of SLT of aggression (pg 28-33)
How does the evidence presented support/contradict the theory?
Are there alternative explanations? (pg 32)