Behavioral views of learning give only partial explanation and overlook important elements like social influences.
Social Cognitive Theory: Explains the difference between enactive and vicarious learning.
ENACTIVE LEARNING
Learning by observing other people
or modeling.
VICARIOUS LEARNING
Learning by doing and experience,
consequences act as information.
Reciprocal Determinism:
Distinguishes between acquisition of knowledge and the
observable performance.
"The world and a person's behavior
cause each other"
"We all know more than we show"
Albert Bandura
Social Learning Theorist
"People who regard themselves
as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those
who perceive themselves as inefficacious.
They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it."
~Albert Bandura
The Bobo Doll Studies- In 1965 Bandura used three groups of Kindergartners in an experiment to test aggression. Each group saw a film in which a women was kicking and beating up and inflatable 'bobo doll'. One group saw the woman get rewarded for being aggressive, one group saw the woman receiving punishment and one group saw no consequences. The children were then placed in a room with a 'bobo doll'. The group that saw her get rewarded were the most aggressive. Those who saw her being punished were the least aggressive. Next, the children were promised rewards and all of them imitated the aggressive behavior. This lead Bandura to believe that incentives can affect performance.
Bandura also defined personality as being an interaction of three things: Environment, behavior and a person's psychological processes.
Bandura also defined the Modeling Theory: If you can get someone with a psychological disorder to observe someone dealing with the same issues in a more productive way, the first person will learn by modeling the second.
IN SHORT