U3 AOS 2 Observational learning (5)

What is observational learning?

• Learning from reading books
• Learning behavior but not showing behavior until rewarded
• Learning from the associations of stimuli
• Learning by watching the behavior of another person, or model

this psychologist ran a study with children and modeled behavior using a bobo-doll.

• Albert Schlansky
• John Watson
• Edward Toleman 
• Albert Bandura

For an individual to experience observational learning, he or she must

• Be rewarded immediately after performing an action.

• Imitate the behavior of a model.

• Be rewarded for every third instance of a behavior.

• Have other people observe and imitate one's own behavior.

Which of the following is an example of observational learning?

• A little girl is spanked for Grabbing her sister's hair.

• Students in a classroom have their recess taken away until they can be quiet.

• Young women wear clothes styled like those of a popular actress.

• A piano student becomes proficient at a new piece of music.

What is the conclusion of the Bobo Doll experiment?

• Children enjoyed watching the experiment involving the Bobo doll

• They did not imitate the behaviour depicted in the Bobo doll experiment

• Aggression in the children increased in both cases when the model behaved aggressively towards the Bo-Bo doll

• All of the above

Which of the following would a social learning theorist most likely to purpose as a cause for a fear of flying?

• A person has maladaptive thoughts about the safety of planes
• A person observed someone else’s fear of flying
• A person had been negatively reinforced for fear of flying on a plane
• The fear is related to childhood trauma

When you experience learning indirectly through others you have learned....

• latently

• vicariously

• tokenly

• behaviorally

Nathan, a teenager, learns how to change the tires of his bike by watching his father do it. This is an example of ________.

• observational learning

• latent learning

• traditional conditioning

• operant conditioning

In Observational learning, when you see another student being given detention for not wearing a uniform so you decide you should stop wearing a hoody

• Vicarious reinforcement

• Vicarious punishment

• Negative reinforcement

• Common sense, I mean who wants detention?

Observational learning occurs when someone uses observations of a _________ and the consequences of those actions to guide their future actions.