PSYC 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Striatum, Homicide, Retrograde Amnesia
20 Jun 2015
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Social learning (observational learning) observational learning copying or imitating social learning: learner actively monitors events involving other individuals and then chooses later actions based on their observations powerful form of learning in humans. Watch others, watch videos, read books, listen to music Differs from cc and oc difficult to study, especially in non-humans: Maybe a prerequisite for voluntary imitations of actions controversy of social learning strong learning in the absence of any specific reinforcement (self-motivated learning) Observing blackbird is being classically conditioned: the model" is an unconditioned stimulus, the initial no complex cognitive processing is required - not cognitively complex attacks lead to an unconditioned attack response bottle is the conditioned stimulus. Centerwall (1992) found that tv ownership in the u. s. increased in tandem with homicide rates. No change in south africa, where tv was banned. Many countries introduced tv without a corresponding increase in homicide. Children exposed to videos of aggression often behave more aggressively when provoked.
