Bandura Social Learning Theory

Observational learning and cognitive variables help explain human behavior and can be utilized in a wide variety of areas. The Social Learning Theory (SLT) suggests that individuals learn a considerable amount of their behavior by observation and imitation of others (Powell, Honey, & Symbaluk 2017. It can be used to produce distinct interventions and treatments for those in need. A review of a variety of studies in aggression, stalking, business, and simulations investigate distinct ways to make use of the many components of the SLT. It was concluded that the SLT is diverse, it allows the creation of different treatments that help individuals in numerous areas.

I interviewed my best friend’s younger brother Ryan who is 11 years old and attends Log College Middle School. During the interview I asked Ryan what his favorite subject was in school to which he replied that it was between English or Social Studies. Ryan also is a “student athlete” and plays in 6th grade basketball. Following Vygotsky’s theory for development, I believe that it fits best within studying in school. I agree with Vygotsky that sociocultural influences do not really have a lot impact on learning skills, it is all internal, not external. For instance, the cognitive abilities needed to excel in these two subjects in school is crucial. Ryan was telling me how much he loved to write freely on his own and creative story writing during English class was his favorite part of the class. Using Vygotsky’s theory, specifically the zone of proximal development, I can easily explain how he was able to acquire this creative writing skill. Whenever he was first introduced to writing or creative writing most likely in elementary school, it was provided by a teacher or some outside source. This support of others, called scaffolding, would be very helpful during this time to make sure he is writing correctly. In stage two in the zone of proximal development he would then learn to assist himself. Vygotsky claimed that private speech is very important to cognitive development. So, for example Ryan talking to himself before writing or typing down a story would help this internalization of developing and bettering this skill. The third stage in the zone of proximal development is internalization and automatic habit formation. Around this stage, Ryan would start to make writing more of a habit, for example maybe he is keeping a journal of creative writing prompts that he writes in every week or so. In stage four, the last stage, of the zone of proximal development is evasiveness as the acquired skill becomes adapted to new situations. As I previously mentioned, his other favorite subject he was torn between was Social Studies. If Ryan successfully uses his creative writing skill to help boost his essays or creative writings that relate to history. Since Ryan has successfully gone through and completed all four of

Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory describes the process through which people acquire new info, forms of behavior, or attitudes from others firsthand or vicariously. The likelihood of a behavior presenting itself will rely on the amount of reinforcement it receives and the value that the individual associates to it. While some behavior may be rewarded, others may produce unfavorable responses. An individual will learn from the consequences of these actions and when a similar situation arises, they will alter their behavior according to what was most successful in the past.

Before describing the socio-educational model and its revisions, Figure 1 above represents what Gardner considers to be the fundamental model of language learning. The model proposes that there are two primary individual differences variables in language learning: ability and motivation. It is proposed that individuals with higher levels of ability such as intelligence and language aptitude will tend to be more successful at learning the language than the students who are less “endowed”. Similarly, students with higher levels of motivation will do better than the students with lower levels, because they will expend more effort, will be more persistent, will be more attentive, will enjoy the experience more, will be goal directed, will want more

Albert Bandura , defined self-efficacy as a person’s belief in their ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task. This can determine how a person approach their goals, tasks, and challenges.

Although Bandura's theory has many positive applications, Social Cognitive Theory also reveals some distressing aspects of human behavior. As the Bible reiterates, mankind became and continues to be inherently bad after the fall. Bandura's theory explains that people (in their gravitation towards sin) tend to copy others sinful behavior. Unfortunately, children are particularly susceptible to other's actions. The main experiment Bandura conducted showed the impact of violent behavior on young people. This is by far the most negative and troubling finding of Bandura's study.

Violent video games, a very profitable market in the technological entertainment industry, are regarded as the leading forces of violent acts in young people, especially young men. In the textbook by Richard Campbell, Christopher R. Martin, and Bettina Fabos, this chain of behavior is described as the Social Learning Theory. The Social Learning Theory, coined by the renowned psychologist Albert Bandura, contained a four-step process: “attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation” (490). In a clearer sense, the violent behavior must first be seen, remembered at a later point, be possible for the subject to perform, and the action must also have some kind of reward or reinforcement for the behavior. By following these steps, Bandura

The social learning theory proposed by Bandura states that the learning process in an individual occurs using observation, imitation, and modeling. Which Implies that people learn by observing others, and forms the idea of the new behavior by using the coded information as a guide for future actions (Thomas & Simpson, 2014). Hence, the concept is similar to cognitive and behavioral learning theory; however, it also adds environmental influences in the learning process. The social learning theory has found application in educational organization, workplace and healthcare setting for assessment and evaluation of clients. Social workers see challenges in the understanding of the complex behavior of clients and social learning theory has guided them in the assessment of clients. They can use the core concepts of the theory to assess clients and find out the factors responsible for the behavioral conflict in a client. The analysis of the meditational process of attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation can help to understand the factors that create behavioral issues for clients (Corey, 2015). Counselors or social workers who deal with school students or people struggling with mental illness can implement effective interventions for them by utilizing this theory. In the case study of Joe, the King social learning theory would be beneficial for all members of the Henry family do to their family dysfunction and unstable mental stability. Bob suffers from offended and anger

There are many social theories; the social learning theory, social control theory and the social bonds, are just a few examples. These example can readily be found in just about everyone’s life. The following will describe if or how they influenced my own life.

Akers and Sellers (2013) has stated that social learning theory is an expanded theory of differential association processes and improves it with differential reinforcement and other principles of the behavior theory. They added classical conditioning (the sharpening of involuntary reflex behavior); discriminative stimuli (internal stimuli that lead to signals for behavior); schedules of reinforcement (rewards and punishment ratio following behavioral feedback); and other theories of behavior (Akers & Sellers, 2013).

I think that learning this learning theory best explains the relationship between motivation and learning is social learning. Whatever qualities interaction with others may have, there is no question but that such interaction possesses all the qualities that Berlyne has characterized as collative and that it is a never ending source of surprise, ambiguity, and complexity. It may be that it is these collative qualities that lead children to seek interaction with others. Children are always attracted to each other for functional reasons, in the sense that they need the help and protection of others in order to cope with their environment. they are attracted to others at times when they have no need of help and they also seek the company of individuals

Language is an area of development that is effected by both nature and nurture. Nature decides human's dispositions and nurture can change these personalities. For example, in an environment where a child is learning to speak around parents with a large vocabulary as compared to an environment where the parent’s vocabulary is not as large, one child will have larger vocabulary skills than the other due to the environment. Children could also be affected by how much attention they

In Bandura’s learning theory, one can learn based off of many factors: Personal, environmental, or behavioral. A personal factors that affects Logan is his gender. Being a boy in his school, he is able to get along with guys, but also talks to girls. Environmental factors affecting Logan are his Catholic religious beliefs and his participation in special olympics bowling. Behavioral factors affecting Logan are the games he chooses to play such as Minecraft. Putting all of these factors together can have an effect of each other.

Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory is a theory that includes development theories in order to understand how children learn. Bandura’s theory is based on how people can learn by observing others, how internal mental states influence people, and how learning something does not change one’s behavior every time. Bandura was able to find out that people learn by three observational models. The first model is the live model which includes observing how someone demonstrates the behavior, the verbal instruction model which learning occurs through auditory directions, and the symbolic model where modeling occurs through media sources such as internet, movies, and books.

The act of learning is an innate characteristic belonging to people across the globe. Learning can take place in many different forms (reading, writing, speaking, listening, excellency in a particular skill, etc.) and settings, generalizing from one content area to another. It also occurs at varying rates across a diverse spectrum of populations and can be influenced by any number of factors including personalities, perceived abilities, societal values and environment. Some individuals acquire information best in formal settings, like the direct instruction or supports found in a classroom, while others may benefit more from informal instruction, learning incidentally from their surroundings. Throughout the course of history, there have been many perspectives regarding education and the manner in which individuals learn best. I will primarily focus on the educational perspective of the Social Learning Theory and briefly discuss its history as well as its prominent figures, components, and implications in regard to language and literacy both inside and outside of the classroom.