Observational Learning Psychology

Advertisement is a form of communication intended to persuade consumers to purchase or to accept the ideas, products or services. Advertising persuasion strategy not only has logic, but also has a unique artistry that advertisers use to find many effective persuasions for various kinds of target markets. Different ways to persuade customers for the same product could have distinct effects by analyzing targets, appeal methods, and angles of vision. Two different image advertisements for watches are analyzed with rhetorical strategies thereinafter, which have entirely distinct groups of the target audiences.

However, advertising also relies on how consumers absorb the meaning of the advertisement. This in turn, shows whether the advertisement was effective or not on the consumer. According to Shintaro Okazaki, Barbara Mueller, and Sandra Diehl, “Different ways of thinking thus may influence how consumers process advertisements grounded in different types of appeals” (Okazaki, S., Mueller, B., and Diehl, S., 259). The advertisement has to be effective in its message to attract the consumer’s attention.

Throughout the last decades there has been vast improvements in advertising and its persuasive effects to our psychology. Not only has it become part of our global culture, it is so deeply ingrained in our society that we sometimes don't even notice if someone trying persuade us by their use of simplistic persuasive techniques. It is only when we reflect on the speech, video, or advertisement that we can pinpoint their propaganda objectives.

Most advertisements involve some sort of emotional appeal: images of charming animals, humorous slogans, delicious food, attractive models. However, advertising’s goal—to convince the consumer to purchase a product or service—does not hold the same personal connection that a child’s persuasion of a parent holds. The lack of longevity and impersonal nature weakens its effect; therefore, emotional appeals are given higher legitimacy. Regardless, one may argue that certain aspects of advertising—like images of near-perfect humans—may detriment one’s thinking and expectations. However, this is not applicable to all, as the severity to which it affects one varies, and it does not directly relate to the legitimacy of emotional appeals, as the intents of most advertisements is not to nurture feelings of insecurity and

He states, “There’s is a flaw in the argument in that advertising can’t be democratic, because it can only appeal to the people who can afford to buy the things they are selling.”(99 Miller). Miller asserts that television shows are now made around the advertisements, with the product being placed within the show or being “repetitions of the ads themselves.”(98) Miller concludes that advertising works like all propaganda, despite your will or reason. It is working on a more visceral subconscious level rather than a persuasive level as many advertisers think it

Psychology class visits took place on March. PACTO Grant was able to attend to three different psychology classes and talk about the program services that we offer at NAU-Yuma. I contacted students after class visit, and many of them scheduled appointment with Marc Hurtado, Case Management Coordinator, to learn about PACTO services, and decide if NAU is a good choice for them.

During the weekend on April 28th, I went over my boyfriend’s house where he had his baby cousin over. For the sake of his confidentiality, we’ll call him Nate. Nate is a 3 year old Filipino boy who is the youngest child in his household along with his older brother and parents. Before beginning my observation, I have discussed my intentions with his parents, which they then gave me permission to observe and record Nate’s behavior during the day.

In conclusion, the Bentley 05 Unitime Watch ad reinforces the male stereotypes of wealth and chivalry from it’s misleading images and extravagant

According to Christopher R. Poirier and Robert S Feldman’s (2007), students who participate in classes that have students use IRT or individual response technology claim to learn more in class and tend to have higher test scores and a better grade point average than of those who do not attend classes that include the active learning in class. The researches want to test if and how active learning (students who participate in in class activities) would affect the outcome of their g.p.a and test scores.

you buy them this toy. Every one of our emotions is played on so that

From the data gathered from the experiment, I would say that the positive reinforcement did encourage a desirable behavior to continue but it was hard to achieve the desirable behavior. The reason why it was difficult is the negative punishment caused Tubbie to avoid and not engage in a full conversation with me. I assume the reason why he began to avoid and not to me was due to fear.The fear of knowing that if he starts to repeat what he is saying, then I will withdraw my interaction with him. So instead of trying to change his problem, he made the decision to have little contact with me in hopes of not receiving the negative punishment. Now that I look back over the data that I collected during this experiment it is undeniable that on 9

The Behavioural approach (also called the learning theory) focuses on the belief that our environment, e.g. people, experiences and learning, influences the development and behaviour of an individual whilst thinking the internal functions, such as thoughts and cognition, are impossible to observe, so they are not apart of the scientific approach to psychology. This theory is also based on the concept of ‘explaining behaviour through observation. Behaviourists assume individuals are born as a blank state (tabula rasa), meaning they do not think biology and cognitive functions influence our behaviour, only our environment does. A large idea that the theory hold is that behaviour can be broken down into stimulus-response units. Stimuli are anything environmental that triggers an individuals’ senses, for example, a student being asked to complete an assignment (stimulus) would respond by completing the assignment. Stimulus-response theories form the basis of classical or operant conditioning, which suggests animals and humans can learn through the relation of a response to any certain stimuli.

The Behavioral Learning Theory believes that behavior is learned from either the environment, the people in the individual's life, the media, or society as a whole. This theory contradicts the Biological theory, which states that criminals are "born to be bad" and that criminal behavior is inherited. The behavioral theory looks at the environment as well as society's impact on how an individual acts which might be the reason for criminal behavior. This theory blames the environment as well as the individual by saying it is a learned behavior and that it also was a choice they made. A basic assumption is that behavior is learned and modeled by individuals, groups, the media, and society as a whole.

In this first advertisement, soccer great David Beckham is pictured looking through the camera at the viewer of the ad. This specific ad works well to reinforce the myth that one’s happiness depends on his or her social class. He is in a state of thought and is dressed in a suit with a watch sitting comfortably on his left wrist. The watch is the same as the featured watch to his right, the Bentley 05 Unitime, a watch that retails for just about ten thousand dollars. Behind the watch there is a Bentley, a luxury car available starting at around one hundred eighty thousand dollars. These two extremely expensive things represent the idea that one will become truly happy if they possess both the car and the watch, or at least just one of them. The ad is situated on what looks like to be the runway of what looks like a private airport enclosed by mountains on both sides. The clouds in the sky are a balance between dark and light. Also, the ad features lettering that identifies and describes the watch. The wording at the bottom left of the ad boasts about the watch’s quality by using words like; style, performance, luxury, accomplishment, class, etc. In today’s time and age, these words are synonymous with how happy a certain individual is. Society views people that have these or possess these qualities as happier than those who do not. Overall, this ad sends the message that the people with the most class, style,

Advertising is a persuasive communication attempt to change or reinforce one’s prior attitude that is predictable of future behavior. We are not born with the attitudes for which we hold toward various things in our environment. Instead, we learn our feelings of favorability or unfavorability through information about the object through advertising or direct experience with the object, or some combination of the two. Furthermore, the main aim of advertising is to ‘persuade’ to consumer in order to generate new markets for production.