Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Insomnia, American Psychiatric Association, Mania

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Observational learning: bobo doll experiment and social cognitive theory. Observational learning (aka social learning/vicarious learning) is learned through watching and imitating others such as modeling actions of another: mirror neurons found that support this. Social cognitive theory is theory of behaviour change that emphasizes interactions between people and their environment. Unlike behaviourism (where environment controls us entirely), cognition is also important: social factors, observational learning, and environmental factors (ex. opinions/attitudes of friends and family) can influence your beliefs. Albert bandora studied it and did the bobo doll experiment. Cited when people debate if they should ban violent video games. It"s a blow-up doll you can punch: had group of children doing arts and crafts, but in middle of it suddenly man appeared and started hitting this inflatable doll. Some children observed it, others weren"t fazed: then man left, and researchers gave kids an impossible puzzle to solve to frustrate them.