1. OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING AND BANDURA

4. In his famous "Bobo doll" studies, Bandura demonstrated that children learn and imitate behaviors they have observed in other people. The children in Bandura's studies observed an adult acting violently towards a Bobo doll. When the children were later allowed to play in a room with the doll, they began to imitate the aggressive actions they had previously observed 1. People can learn by observing the behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors. General principles of social learning:

6. 1. In order to learn, you need to be paying attention. ATTENTION

10. People are often reinforced for modeling the behavior of others . Bandura suggested that the environment also reinforces modeling. This is in several possible ways: How the environment reinforces and punishes modeling:

12. 2. The observer is reinforced by a third person. The observer might be modeling the actions of someone else, for example, an outstanding class leader or student. The teacher compliments and praises the observer for modeling such behavior, thus reinforcing that behaviour.