A researcher carried out a study on social learning. As part of the procedure, she showed children aged 5-6 years a video of a 5-year-old girl carefully placing empty plastic bottles into a green recycling bin. Whilst the children watched the video, the researcher commented on how helpful and caring the girl was. After the children had watched the video, the researcher brought empty plastic bottles and a green recycling bin into the room and observed how the children behaved. Outline what is meant by social learning theory and explain how social learning might have occurred in the procedure described above.
248 exam-style questions on AQA A Level Psychology Approaches in Psychology, covering Learning approaches, Cognitive approach, Biological approach, Psychodynamic approach (A-level only), Humanistic Psychology (A-level only), and Comparison of approaches (A-level only). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.