Psychology › Section F · Learning › Topic F.4
Observational learning
Nobody learns to swim, cook or swear entirely by trial and error. Much of what people do was picked up by watching someone else, and this topic explains how that works, what Albert Bandura's famous Bobo doll studies did and did not show, and why learning is more than conditioning.
In this topic
- Learning by watching
- Bandura's social learning theory
- The Bobo doll study (1961)
- Rewarded and punished models
- Four processes in modelling
- Worked example: the four processes
- Worked example: weighing the Bobo evidence
- Prosocial and antisocial models
- Mirror neurons
- Insight, helplessness and self-efficacy
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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