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- Title
Social Learning and Imitation.
- Authors
Wodtke, Kenneth H.; Brown, Bobby R.
- Abstract
This article presents the study on the growth of social learning and was divided into three main topics including social reinforcements, observational learning or imitation and the learning of aggression. The area of social reinforcement was one of the most productive areas of research during the period covered by the review. A number of alternative hypothesis have been formulated to account for the effects of social reinforcement on behavior, particularly following brief periods of social isolation. The phenomenon of imitation has been relatively neglected in psychological research. The theory which accounts for observational learning must be able to account for a form of learning in which a subject is able to reproduce the behavior of a model on the first trial without making an overt response and in the absence of reinforcement applied either to the observer or to the model. The theories, models and schema employed in the study and explanation of aggressive behavior reflect the wide diversity of interest, choices of levels and loci of analysis and the basic theoretical assumptions of the investigators.
- Subjects
SOCIAL learning; PSYCHOLOGY of learning; PSYCHOLOGICAL research; IMITATIVE behavior; SOCIAL influence; SOCIAL psychology &; literature
- Publication
Review of Educational Research, 1967, Vol 37, Issue 5, p514
- ISSN
0034-6543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1169510