PSYC 325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Frontal Lobe, Auditory Cortex, Nonviolent Video Game
20 Jun 2015
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Social learning: learner actively monitors events involving other individuals and then chooses later actions based on their observations. Researchers cannot predict what an organism will learn after observing the actions of other. Can involve replications of actions or the performance of novel actions that lead to the observed outcome of a modeller"s actions. But very little experimental data showing what children do learn through imitation. Modelling = prerequisite for all kinds of copying [demonstrations that a child can imitate] Viewing aggressive acts can in some cases inhibit aggressive behaviour rather than increase it. True imitation: copying in which motor acts are replicated. Technique to investigate imitation abilities = two-action test. Two individuals are each trained to perform a different action, but the two actions have the same outcome. If the na ve observers later perform the operation in a way that matches the technique they observed, then their behaviour is accepted as evidence of true imitations.
