PSYC 325 Study Guide - Final Guide: Basal Ganglia, Prefrontal Cortex, Asperger Syndrome
22 Jun 2015
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Define and describe the processes of social (observational) learning. Social learning: learner actively monitors events involving other individuals and then chooses later actions based on their observations. Can occur without explicit rewards, and requires complex cognitive processing. Researchers cannot predict what an organism will learn after observing the actions of the subjects. Depends on the learner"s attention to and perception of the situation they observe. It"s up to the learner to decide when and how to perform the behaviours that have been observed. Describe the roles of copying, modeling, true imitation, and emulation in observational learning. Can involve replications of actions or performance of novel actions that lead to the observed outcome of a modeller"s actions. Modelling: prerequisite for all kinds of copying [demonstrations that a child can imitate. True imitation: copying in which motor acts are replicated [reproducing motor acts]
