Myers PSYCHOLOGY Seventh Edition in Modules

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Myers PSYCHOLOGY Seventh Edition in Modules

• Module 22
• Learning by Observation
• James A. McCubbin, Ph.D.
• Clemson University
• Worth Publishers

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Observational Learning

• Observational Learning
• learning by observing others
• Modeling
• process of observing and imitating a specific
  behavior

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Observational Learning

• Mirror Neurons
• frontal lobe neurons that fire when performing
  certain actions or when observing another doing
  so
• may enable imitation, language learning, and
  empathy

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Observational Learning

• Alfred Banduras Experiments
• Bobo doll
• we look and we learn

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Observational Learning

• Prosocial Behavior
• positive, constructive, helpful behavior
• opposite of antisocial behavior

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Observational Learning

• This 14-month-old boy is imitating behavior he
  has seen on TV

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Television and Observational Learning