Thirteen Social Learning Theory

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.

One night, towards the end of November, three teenagers were out past their town 's curfew. The teenagers knew that if they were caught, they would be in more trouble than they had ever been in before. These three teenagers were the oddest group of friends, Ethan was the goody-two-shoes of the group- always following the rules, he was a skinny kid standing about six feet tall but there was not one ounce of muscle on his body; Jackson was the star of the lacrosse team- he never paid attention to what anyone told him, especially adults, he was only about 5’10”, but built of pure muscle; and then there was Brooke- she did not know much about anything and she did whatever her boyfriend Jackson told her to, she was blonde and strikingly

Social learning theory, developed by Bandura, discusses how people learn from one another through observation, modeling, and imitation bridging an individual’s attention, memory and motivation. Social learning theory identifies the importance of cognition, observable behavior, individual self-efficacy, and the extent of how the events surrounding an individual affect them; their locus of control. Social learning theory also looks at individual problem behavior being influenced by positive or negative reinforcement (Ashford & LeCroy, 2012).

Her observations provide several different explanations and reasons as to why these girls behave so differently from mainstream society as the inner city is wholly dissimilar from what American society is used to. These girls operate from different rules and codes that they must abide by or they may end up getting victimized or worse, killed. Because of these reasons, the girls adapt an

High school can be the cruellest time in a teenager’s life. Unfortunately Sarah got to experience that first hand. There was a game that was being played at Sarah’s school, but poor Sarah didn’t know anything about it. She had no friends and she was not considered cool. She felt victim of this inhumane game which was; the most popular kid becomes friends with those that are not popular or have low self-esteem, then convinces them to have sex with one of their friends, and secretly videos it and post it online. Sarah was clueless of what was going to happen to her the day she became friends with Julia, who was the most popular girl in school. She didn’t know that her school days at Rocks High School would be ended because of pregnancy.

Differential association theory states that we learn all of our actions, including deviant actions, from others. These can be a wide range of people, but they tend to be reoccuring interactions. Control theory states that we hold onto social norms as long as we are adequately socialized, as long as we have and maintain positive social ties. Both theories relay on the individuals interactions with a group and that groups mentality gets transfered to the individual. The first theory shows how people get involved with a variety of activities, while the control theory explains how societal ties compel use to maintain the social norm.

The viewer witnesses Tracy’s involvement in a variety of risky behaviors such as drinking, sexual behavior, cutting and skipping school. These decisions could possibly lead to negative outcomes; for instance dropping out of school, drug abuse, pregnancy, STDs, or even death. At the beginning of the movie, thirteen year old Tracy is perceived as immature with only a

Domestic violence can be defined as the type of behavior that is aggressive or violent and usually occurs within the home, it usually involves two or more people of an intimate relationship. There are different reasons as to why people commit acts of domestic violence, even though many may think that abusive behaviors are inherited, this is not the case. Violent and abusive behaviors are learned rather than inherited, and Social Learning Theories best explains how people are more prone to being violent. Social learning theory is the idea that people learn by observing and imitating someone else’s behavior and attitude. The social learning theory states that people are not born with violent or abusive behaviors, but that these things are learned

Starting with differential association, which refers to “behavioral-interactional and normative dimensions and refers to the direct and indirect, verbal and nonverbal communication, interaction, and identification with groups and individuals that comprise or control the individual’s major sources of reinforcement, more salient behavioral models, and most effective definitions for the commission and repetition of behavior” (Akers, Ronald L.). These groups are most likely family and friends, but could also be “peer groups” that are formed on the Internet and other social media outlets. Definitions include beliefs, attitudes, justifications, and orientations, that become outlets for criminal behavior (Akers, Ronald L.). These definitions are the backbone of “the content of the learning by mechanisms such as imitation and differential reinforcement (Akers, Ronald L.). Differential reinforcement refers to the number of times and the probability of rewards and punishment for specific behaviors and imitation is the processes in which behaviors and the consequences are observed and demonstrated (Akers,

Individuals can attempt to understand different situations through a variety of ways. They can experience the situation firsthand, watch it from afar, or speak with those who personally reside in the situation. At times, however, it is impossible to do any of these things. By looking to theories and theoretical perspectives, a person can gain an understanding on a situation they may be unfamiliar with. In Born into Brothels, the children are part of a situation many have never been in. Using theories, their current circumstances can be better understood.

Vanessa Steals the article of clothing to seem cool and to make her friends think she is cool. When Stacy copies Vanessa's assignment, instead of getting Stacy in trouble, she goes along with Stacy’s story, saying that they decided to work on it collaboratively. THis show a negative side of substage three of Kohlberg’s theory. In this substage children are only concerned with what other people think about them so they act to make themselves look good to authority figures. In Vanessa’s case, Stacy is the authority figure whom Vanessa is trying to impress. This leads Vanessa to making morally wrong

One of the theories that most relates to my beliefs would be Banduras Social learning theory. Banduras Social learning theory consists of a person who learns by observing another person. The book calls it “model” one can know them by “role models”. I believe this theory is realistic since babies mimic what they see. For instance, when me and my husband kiss each other goodbye before class my babies watch us, now when my son gets dropped off to preschool my daughter and him try to kiss each other goodbye. We have learned to be careful with what we do or say in front of our children. The other theory that relates to my own personal thinking is Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory. This theory consists of a person’s cognitive development through interactions with other culture’s. For example, when I was younger, I was placed in a class of students my own culture. The other class was full of diverse cultures and my mom decided to argue with the school to place me in the diverse class. Thanks to her I was placed in a diverse classroom and I was able to understand other cultures. I became knowledgeable with other traditions and appreciated their uniqueness. When I looked back, I noticed the students who were in

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).

For this task I interviewed my Mom. First, she described the “bittersweet” feeling of watching me seemingly grow up so fast with my attempts at communicating with her and my Dad through baby talk. Me trying to talk as a baby demonstrates the social learning theory, which states that people learn through the observations of those around them. Part of the way I learned how to speak and how other babies learned to speak as well was through trying to imitate the speech of those around them, especially of the parent(s) or guardian(s). Next, my Mom recounted the countless times she would have to get up in the middle of the night to soothe my crying. For babies in general, the act of crying represents an example of cognitive behavior. A cognitive

My topic for my workshop is focused on young men ages 18-25 years old mandated by the court due to physically abusing their partner. These young men need some short of intervention. My workshop will serve as a last result before they are sentenced to prison for abuse. Not every man who abuses his partner gets a chance to receive assistance for his problem. They need skills in order to challenge their anger and identify the cause of so much aggression. I have decided to use Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory as my family based theory. Social learning theory is the view that people learn by observing others while learning new values, behaviors, and attitudes. I choose Bandura’s Social Learning Theory due to it relating the best to my topic. I chose content area number five and it deals