1. Social Learning Your CC is excellent: p111-115
Topic: Explain social learning theory with reference to two studies.
Bandura (1961) & Gergely et al (2002)

2. Warm up: Bandura would argue that Reilly will learn socially about ice skating in which conditions?

3. Who is Albert Bandura? bandura@stanford.edu
Canadian born, Stanford researcher/psychologist UBC alumni!
Author of social learning/cognitive theory – a blend of traditional behaviorism & cognitive influence
Theory of self efficacy

4. Context: Behaviourist approach
Stimulus – response
Study behaviour that we can directly SEE/MEASURE - output
Mind is inaccessible to scientific inquiry, so why study it?
We can’t see it, can’t measure it, and it’s unscientific to do so

5. Late 19t C John Watson: conditioning fear in Baby Albert
Thorndike ‘puzzle box’; rewarding cats if they pulled a string
BF Skinner, ‘Skinner Box’; highly mechanized; rewards, operant conditioning

6. But What’s not explained?

7. Bandura: Agreed with some aspects of behaviourism BUT
Incorporated importance of cognition in his social theory – one of the first to do this.
We can learn by watching/observing/ paying attention/remembering/insight/vicarious experience

8. “Social cognitive theory (1986) holds that an individual’s environment, cognition, and behaviour all interact to determine how he functions, as opposed to one of those factors playing a dominant role.”

9. Key aspects to social learning theory
Humans learn through observation
We imitate behaviour whether it’s taught to us or not (direct, indirect)
Behaviour is modeled by others and retained
Be thinking: what’s the implication for research method?
With your neighbor, complete an ARMM CIRL

10. Your review: Key aspects to social learning theory
In order for social learning to take place, we must:
Attention; we must actually be looking at the beh; focused on it
Retain: meaning, we can recall when we do for production
Motor reproduction: DO the behaviour
*Motivated: have to want to produce the behaviour

11. What impacts motivation to learn?
Consistency: repeated exposure to the beh
Identification with model: ie: younger students identify with older students – same school, DP
Rewards and punishments: learning will take place at higher rate when rewarded; less rate when punished
Likable: when models are identified with and liked – learning happens at a greater rate

12. Study 1: Bandura (1961) Multi aim:
would children imitate adult agg?
Would children imitate same gender model more?
Sample: 36 boys, 36 girls, age 3-6, so preschool – Gr 1
Grouped based on interview with teachers/parents
Group 1: watched agg adult bash Bobo (clip)
Group 2: watched non agg adult put toys together
Control: no model/played in room w/toys

13. Bandura (1961) After watching, agg induced – how? Result:
Those who watched agg model more likely to demonstrate verbal/phys agg
Gender: girls more likely to imitate verbal agg; boys phys agg
You are NOT required to evaluate in SAQ, but some critical points you have? I’m sure you have plenty! Chat 

14. Outline how Bandura’s study uses 2 research methods:
Lab exp
Non participant observation
IV: type of model
Control: no model
DV: op’d agg
Controlled variables: model actions; toys in the room, Bobo doll, location; time they see the model; sequence of agg acts; same verbal statements
Can it be replicated? – YES
Generalize results
Update your RM topic index!
Researchers were removed – watched kids through one way mirror; video
Interview stage – semi structured

15. Study 2: Gergely et al (2002) Selective imitation (14month olds)
Read study
Aim/proc/findings
Replicate the study w/ neighbor
Notes: What does this study demonstrate about SLT?
At home: Text 123, aim/proc/findings