BANDURA S Theory Of Social Learning
BANDURA’S theory of social learning
By Chante, Hassan, Valeria, Eunice, Elorm, Jazante,
Alison and Holly
A brief description of the and subject.
In social learning theory Albert
Bandura (1977) states behaviour is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning.
He believed that children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. This is illustrated during the famous bobo doll experiment.
Bandura’s bobo doll method and result
Method
Result
Children who observed the aggressive models made far more imitative aggressive responses than those who were in the nonaggressive or control groups.
Bandura and two other associates tested 36 boys and 36 girls aged between 3 to 6 years old. The role models were one male adult and one female adult.
Under controlled conditions, Bandura arranged for 24 boys and girls to watch a male or female model behaving aggressively towards a toy.
He also arranged another 24 children that were exposed to a nonaggressive model and the final 24 child were used as a control group and not exposed to any model at all.
The girls in the aggressive model conditions also showed more physical aggressive responses if the model was male but more verbal aggressive responses if the model was female. However the it was visa versa towards the boys.
Boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls. There was little difference in the verbal aggression between boys and girls.
Strengths
Accurate and easy to understand
Optimistic, in a good way
Offers a way to integrate social and cognitive theories
Allows and accounts for cognitive processes.
One interesting point that was brought up by bee (1992) is that this kind of theory can easily handle inconsistencies in a child’s behaviour
(reinforced at school, not at home
e.g. well behaved at school, but not at home). This view of behaviour is extremely optimistic. It suggest that given the right environment, any behaviour can
By Chante, Hassan, Valeria, Eunice, Elorm, Jazante,
Alison and Holly
A brief description of the and subject.
In social learning theory Albert
Bandura (1977) states behaviour is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning.
He believed that children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. This is illustrated during the famous bobo doll experiment.
Bandura’s bobo doll method and result
Method
Result
Children who observed the aggressive models made far more imitative aggressive responses than those who were in the nonaggressive or control groups.
Bandura and two other associates tested 36 boys and 36 girls aged between 3 to 6 years old. The role models were one male adult and one female adult.
Under controlled conditions, Bandura arranged for 24 boys and girls to watch a male or female model behaving aggressively towards a toy.
He also arranged another 24 children that were exposed to a nonaggressive model and the final 24 child were used as a control group and not exposed to any model at all.
The girls in the aggressive model conditions also showed more physical aggressive responses if the model was male but more verbal aggressive responses if the model was female. However the it was visa versa towards the boys.
Boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls. There was little difference in the verbal aggression between boys and girls.
Strengths
Accurate and easy to understand
Optimistic, in a good way
Offers a way to integrate social and cognitive theories
Allows and accounts for cognitive processes.
One interesting point that was brought up by bee (1992) is that this kind of theory can easily handle inconsistencies in a child’s behaviour
(reinforced at school, not at home
e.g. well behaved at school, but not at home). This view of behaviour is extremely optimistic. It suggest that given the right environment, any behaviour can