PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 13: Parenting Styles, Stepfamily, Time-Sharing
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Social learning theorists do not neglect the fact that reinforcement and punishment condition and shape behavior, but they also suggest that much of what we do is learned without direct instruction or training. Appropriate behavior is often learned through explicit, unspoken, Children often learn to speak by mimicking others; overtime their verbal. Social learning theory asserts that human beings having the capacity for. The knowledge of appropriate rules and adaptive behavior between. The social learning theory was introduced over 50+ years ago and was introduced by neal. Their main argument is that social models ought to be the central focus because they are the main factors in determining how people behave (legacy quote) Bandura and walters introduced observational learning as additional underlying force further determining behavior (classical and operant conditioning alone weren"t sufficient) Observational learning: a process through which an individual observes the behavior of others or a model, and as a result the observer"s behavior changes (social alignment)
