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Learning: learning is acquiring the ability to establish relationships between signs, symptoms or
symbols and objects. This also includes e.g. recognition and recollection of patterns, similarities,
sensory perceptions, self-perception, etc. In the ideal case, the ability to apply generalizations to
future cases is acquired while learning. See also knowledge, knowledge-how, competence.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of
problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. –
Lexicon of Arguments.
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Slater I 178
Learning/Bandura: The most immediate impact of
[Bandura’s Bobo doll] study (Bandura et al. 1961)(1)
was that it led to a paradigm shift in how
developmental scientists regarded learning. >Bobo
doll study/experiment/Bandura.
Instead of conceptualizing learning as being limited
to behaviors that were directly reinforced or
punished, Bandura and his colleagues demonstrated
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clearly that it was possible to learn new aggressive
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behaviors solely through imitation, with no
Bandura,
Learning reinforcement or punishment attached to the
Albert
behaviors for either the adult models or the child.
This breakthrough finding led to the formulation of
social learning theory, with the major tenets that
people learn from observing, imitating, and modeling
other people (Bandura, 1977)(2).
>Imitation/psychological studies,
>Aggression/psychological studies.
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Bandura, Albert
Slater I
Alan M. Slater
Paul C. Quinn
Developmental
Psychology.
Revisiting the
Classic Studies
London 2012
Psychology Dictionary of Arguments
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Learning: learning is acquiring the ability to establish relationships between signs, symptoms or
symbols and objects. This also includes e.g. recognition and recollection of patterns, similarities,
sensory perceptions, self-perception, etc. In the ideal case, the ability to apply generalizations to
future cases is acquired while learning. See also knowledge, knowledge-how, competence.
_____________
Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of
problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. –
Lexicon of Arguments.
Author
Item
Summary
1. Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1961).
Transmission of aggression through imitation of
aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology, 63, 575—582.
2. Bandura, A. (1977). Social learning theory. New
Yoric General Learning Press.
Jenifer E. Lansford, “Aggression. Beyond Bandura’s
Bobo Doll Studies“, in: Alan M. Slater and Paul C.
Quinn (eds.) 2012. Developmental Psychology.
Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage
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