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Social Learning Theory

Social Learning Theory. The Individual vs. the Environment. Roots in Traditional Learning Themes. You are what you have experienced Learning occurs via outcomes (rewards and punishments) Best to study animals. Behaviorism. B.F. Skinner. Behaviorism. Purest version of learning theories

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Social Learning Theory

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  1. Social Learning Theory The Individual vs. the Environment

  2. Roots in TraditionalLearning Themes • You are what you have experienced • Learning occurs via outcomes • (rewards and punishments) • Best to study animals

  3. Behaviorism

  4. B.F. Skinner

  5. Behaviorism • Purest version of learning theories • Rewards & punishment = conditioning • Emphasis on scientific rigor • Only replicable observation counts

  6. How Behaviorists View the Function of the Brain

  7. Are Rats Little People?

  8. Social Learning Theory • 1960’s • No direct reward necessary • -Allows for thinking ! • -Part of cognitive revolution in • Scientific psychology

  9. Albert Bandura

  10. Two Versions of Social Learning Theory • Vicarious Learning - others get rewarded or punished in view of the learner • Pure Modeling - no one gets rewarded or punished

  11. Who Do We Model?

  12. Parents

  13. Pop Stars

  14. Political Leaders

  15. Historical Figures

  16. Problem Many anti-social role models

  17. Be a Canadian Hero

  18. Be Violent

  19. Be A Crook Like Tony Soprano

  20. Be a Jack-Ass

  21. Even Cartoons!South Park; Beavis & Butthead

  22. Be Skinny

  23. Critique of Learning Theories • No big picture of the person • Too much focus on situations • Ignore biological factors • Mechanical -- No free will

  24. Determinism vs. Free Will • Determinism says that all behavior follows scientific laws • Only Humanistic Theories have free will • No room for free will in learning equation: S -------> R

  25. Life Is A Pool Table

  26. Ayn Ran

  27. Laissez-faire Capitalism • Strongly individualist • opposition to state intervention into personal, social or economic affairs • anti-Communist. • exalted American values of rational egoism and individualism. • strong opposition to mysticism • one of the three founding mothers of modern American libertarianism

  28. Ayn Ran Believed • Psychology is dangerous to society • Takes away responsibility for social behavior such as in the case of: • Violence • Communicable disease control

  29. Case of Robert K. Robert K. was found guilty by a jury of his peers of molesting several children for ten years. They included his own daughter.

  30. Mitigating Factors • He and all of his siblings had psychological problems (e.g., depression; sexual disturbances) • He was an alcoholic • He was poor and uneducated • A brain tumor was discovered; after removal, he no longer molested • He had been sexually abused by both of his own parents

  31. What would you recommend as punishment and why?

  32. Was Ayn Rand Right ? • Those who assume free like Ayn Rand will assign the maximum punishment • Determinists believe that punishment should be handed out in accordance with the circumstances that surrounded the case • What do you believe?

  33. How Would You Intervene? • Determinist? • Free Willer?

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