PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Albert Bandura, Mirror Neuron

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

We watch and observe the social world around us and we see what is accepted and punished. We observe behaviours of role models by imitating them. Humans or animals from beginning observe and imitate. Highly specialized neurons that activate when we are doing an activity. But they also activate when someone else does an activity. If we infer that someone else is going a specific activity, the mirror neurons activate. They could be involved in empathy, complex psychological process such as learning. They are found all over the brain including the motor cortex. We can teach a lot through observation such as kindness, compassion, etc by modelling behaviours ourselves. Influences and affects violence in real life. o! Direct cause and effect relationship between violence and aggression in media of violence in real life. o! Kids who watch violent movies have a 7x increase in violence. Diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it.