PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Learning Theory, Albert Bandura, Social Influence
12 Dec 2017
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How groups influence (key points: performance, decision making. A group is two or more individuals, who for longer than a few moments, interact and influence one another and perceive one another as us Social influence: the effects of other people on an individual"s beliefs, attitudes, values or behaviour. First influence is our parents then relatives, peers and mass media. Subject to these social influence"s throughout the life span. Presence, actions and attitudes of others affect the individuals thoughts and behaviour (inadvertently or inadvertently) Conformity involves altering ones attitudes or behavior in response to the attitudes, belief and behaviour of other people. Social learning: the capacity to learn from observing others. Marco lacoboni: (neuroscientist) when you see me perform an acting, you automatically simulate the action in your own brain (mirror neurons: activated both when one does an action oneself and when one simply observes another person perform that action)
