PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Structured Interview, Eyewitness Testimony, Habituation
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Lecture 6 end of psychological frameworks, beginning of research. Social learning theory and the work of bandura. Critical importance of observational learning, vicarious conditioning. Learning by watching what other people do: clever idea you go fight the tiger, i"ll stay here and watch how you do. Bandura had a triangle of three aspects called reciprocal determinism. Another self-organizing system model: person, behaviour, and environment are all reciprocally determining each other. We are wired for the existence of mirror neurons. Bandura picked up on an important aspect of learning that was ignored by locke, skinner, watson, rescorla, hollis, etc they were like piaget all they talked about was the mind-to-world aspects of learning. Bandura focused on mind-to-mind aspects learning link between cognitive-developmental theory and sociocultural theory social learning theory becomes dissolved into these two. Learning is sophisticated and cognitive, it"s about mind-to-mind connections and mind-to-world connections.
