Bandura

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Bandura

• Adlyn Perez
• Psych 452
• February 18, 2008

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Social-Cognitive Theory

• Social-cognitive theory arose from the
  limitations of behaviorism
• Behaviorism environment behavior
• Bandura argued that learning is not limited to
  classical and operant learning cognitive factors
  play a large role in determining behavior

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Banduras Theory

• Reciprocal Determinism The three components of
  learning are behavior, external factors
  (environment) and internal factors (cognition).
  All three components interact with one another.
• Our beliefs and expectations have an effect on
  our behavior, which shapes our environment.

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Banduras Reciprocal Determinism Model
Behavior
Internal factors (Beliefs, thoughts)
External factors (Rewards, Punishments)
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Social Learning

• Learning can occur though observation only,
  without the presence of reinforcement.

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The Bobo Doll Study

• The study was conducted with 33 girls and 33 boys
  between the ages of 3 and 5.
• Children watched a video of an adult performing
  aggressive acts on a blow-up Bobo doll. The adult
  in the video was either punished, rewarded, or
  given no consequence.
• Children that saw a punished model were less
  likely to exhibit aggressive behaviors when left
  alone.

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The Bobo Study

• Results demonstrated that learning can and does
  occur without reinforcement

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Applications

• Aggression
• Children can learn aggressive behavior just by
  watching it on a video, which spurred more
  research on aggression in children and the media.
• Sex Differences
• Results showed that boys displayed consistently
  more aggressive behaviors than girls. Bandura
  argued that aggressive behavior is usually not
  reinforced in girls. This also indicates that
  gender-based behaviors are also learned.