Clara is a 15-year-old girl who has recently taken up competitive gaming, inspired by her favourite female esports champion, "Valkyrie." Clara bought the specific mechanical keyboard and high-performance headset that Valkyrie endorses in her streaming sponsorships.
During an online team tournament with her peers, Clara wears her new gear. Midway through the match, a prominent talent scout joins the spectator lobby and posts a highly encouraging comment in the public chat. Upon noticing the scout's presence, several of the male players in the lobby immediately begin playing far more aggressively, shouting orders loudly, and engaging in intense, risk-taking strategies to outdo one another.
Evaluate how the biological approach and social learning theory can explain human behaviour. You must make reference to the context in your answer.
205 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Main features of classical conditioning, Pavlov (1927) salivation in dogs, Main features of operant conditioning, Properties of reinforcement, Behaviour modification and shaping, Main features of social learning theory, Social learning stages, Bandura (1961, 1963) Bobo doll experiments, Bandura (1965) vicarious reinforcement, Learning theories and phobias, Treatments for phobias, Individual differences, and Developmental psychology. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.