Social Learning Theory & Gender Development (OCR A-Level Psychology): Flashcards

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Social Learning Theory & Gender Development
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What SLT explains (gender development)

How we learn gender roles by watching & copying others

Psychologist who introduced SLT

Albert Bandura

Gender understanding in SLT (innate or learned?)

Learned from people around us, not innate

First SLT mechanism for gender learning

Observing and imitating role models

Examples of role models in SLT

Parents, siblings, teachers, TV characters

Definition of vicarious reinforcement

Learning from seeing others rewarded/praised for behaviour

Example of vicarious reinforcement (girl & dolls)

Girl sees another praised for dolls, decides to play w/ dolls

Number of steps in Bandura's learning model

Four steps

Bandura's 1st step of learning

Attention - pay attention to others' behaviour

Bandura's 2nd step of learning

Retention - remember what we've seen

Bandura's 3rd step of learning

Reproduction - be able to do the behaviour

Bandura's 4th step of learning

Motivation - want to copy the behaviour

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