Social and learning approach back of grave quiz

Learning approach (Bandura, Fagen, S+S) assumptions

• Each life begins on a ‘blank slate’: Observable changes to our behavior can result from interactions with our environment

• the processes of social learning, operant conditioning, and classical conditioning are how humans and animals learn. These processes involve stimulus-response, i.e experiences within our environment (stimuli) shape our behavior

Social approach assumptions (Piliavin, Milgram and Perry)

• our behavior, cognitions, and emotions can be influenced by the actual, implied, or imagined presence of others

• All of our behavior, cognitions, and emotions can be influenced by social contexts, social environments, and groups.

Bandura psych being investigated

social learning theory and aggression

Bandura aims

• to investigate if child would learn aggression by observing a model and would reproduce this behavior in the absence of a model

• whether the sex of the role model was important

Bandura sampling technique

opportunity

Fagen psych being investigated

operant conditioning, reinforcement (positive, negative, primary, and secondary)shaping and behavioral chaining

Fagen aim

To see if free-contact, traditionally trained elephants can be trained to willingly participate in a trunk wash by using pos. reinforcement.

Fagen sampling technique

opportunity

Saavedra and silverman psych being investigated

evaluative learning, operant conditioning, classical conditioning and phobias

Saavedra and silverman aims

• to examine the role of classical conditioning in relation to fear and avoidance of a particular stimulus

• if using a type of exposure therapy could reduce the disgust and distress associated with buttons

Saavedra and silverman sampling technique

opportunity

Piliavin psych being inv.

bystander apathy and diffusion of responsibility

Piliavin aims

• to study bystander apathy and diffusion of responsibility in a natural setting

• to investigate the effect of four variables on helping behavior or being a good samaritan (type of v, race of v, behavior or m, and size grp. of bystanders.)

Piliavin sampling technique

opportunity sample

Milgram psych being inv.

obedience and social pressure

Milgram aims

• to investigate how obedient an individual would be to orders received from a person in authority

• whether people show obedience even when it would result in physical harm to another person (destructive obedience)

Milgram sampling technique

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Perry psych being inv.

interpersonal distance (personal space), social hormones and empathy

Perry aim

to test the differential effect of the social hormone OT on personal space preference in relation to a persons empathic ability

Perry sampling technique

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