PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Sex Doll, Video Lesson, Social Learning Theory
17 Sep 2013
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Common sense does not always equal research findings. Eg/ norman triplett, 1898 cyclists bike faster when in a group race, rather than when racing against a clock individually. Triplett hypothesized that there mere presence of others was an important variable in the performance of the actor. Social facilitation the increased performance that occurs in the presence of co-actors or an audience: co-actor another individual performing the same task, audience a group of people watching an individual perform a task. Co-actor + audience = improved performance, no effect or enhanced performance. Children who viewed the aggressive model were more aggressive with the bobo doll; punching, yelling and attacking the doll. Aggressive behaviour was spontaneous with no explicit reinforcement or encouragement. Finding ran against the pure behaviorist ideas that suggest that learning of a behaviour would only occur with explicit reinforcement. Children still attached the real person with kicks, punched and toy hammers.
