PSYCH 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.4: Meta-Analysis, Amygdala, Mirror Neuron
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Learning can occur through observation and imitation: observational learning: the acquisition or modification of behavior after exposure to another individual performing that behavior; sometimes called social learning. Learn by watching as much as by doing: bandura"s observational studies. The most influential work on observational learning was conducted in the. In one of his studies, he divided preschool children into two groups; one group watched a film of an adult playing gently with an inflatable doll called bobo, the other watched a film of an adult attacking bobo furiously. Later, the children were allowed to play with toys, including the bobo doll; those who had seen the more aggressive display were more than twice as likely to act aggressively towards the doll. Results suggest that exposing children to violence makes them act: modeling (demonstration and imitation) more aggressively. Modeling: reproducing the behaviors of models, those being observed.
