Social learning theory

Social learning theory

Introduction

Social learning theory posits that individuals are likely to from others through imitation, observation and modelling. The theory is mostly called a bridge between cognitive learning and behaviourist because it comprises memory, motivation and attention.

Weaknesses

Although the theory explains complex behaviour, it can’t explain adequately how people develop the whole behaviour, including feelings and thoughts. People got a lot of cognitive control of characters, and just because they had violence experience does not mean they should copy the same behaviour. The theory seems weak also in the fact that no full explanation of every action, for example, in a situation where people don’t have role models to imitate. Some people got good character despite they grew up in a case where no one to follow or copy.

Bias

The theory was biased in explaining personality. Someone behaviour can be modified from the experiences and things they can into contact as they grow. The theory in this situation is bias because it does not consider some people whose behaviour is changed by the environment rather than what they experience. For example, a kid from a low-income family might work hard in life to change the poor nature of his/her family. In this case, no imitation or observing but just self-sacrifice.

Theories that address Social Learning Theory weakness and biases

The cognitive-affective processing system theory can be applied to solve some weaknesses and biases. The theory accounts for stability in personality and behaviour variation in various people.  The behaviour of someone can be well known by understanding the individual well and the situation they are interacting with at different times.  Behaviourist perspective can also apply to address some weakness because it explains how the behaviour of human beings correlates with mental processes that are collaborative and divergent.

Conclusion

Human behaviour can be from the experience people have built this, not always the case. There is a situation where human beings modify their characters without copying anyone.

Reply

Beha

The theory is based on the opinion that learning is a concept of alteration in overt character. People change behaviour based on the individual’s feedback to stimuli that happen in our surroundings. Feedback can be negative or positive, depending on the situation. For example, positive reinforcement can empower a character by offering a consequence someone feels motivating. For instance, if a teacher rewards a student who performed better, then that students can be motivated to work harder. Trait Approach to Personality can be applied to oppose the theory. Despite the positive reinforcement, people should know that people that differ in their characters because of genetic variations.

Reply 2

Based on the cognitive, affective theory, the character is predicted best from understanding the situation, The individuals and the interaction between the situation and the persons. Behaviour not only because of global personality character, but it comes from someone assumption of themselves in a particular situation. The theory is essential sometimes because, through evaluation, some decides about the outcomes which come with the decision after accepting to encounter the experience. However, they are numerous ways of understanding some behaviour not only based on the assumptions people might have from themselves. Some of the behaviours are inherited not from any experience. Some behaves based on the Eysenck’s Personality Theory can be driven from the biological factors not just through thinking and making a decision based on the experience.