Sixteen-year-old Jamil is teaching his ten-year-old sister, Amara, how to play a basic drum beat. Jamil demonstrates by striking the snare and hi-hat slowly, ensuring Amara is paying full attention to his hands. Jamil cheers enthusiastically and gives Amara a thumbs-up whenever she replicates the rhythm successfully. Amara beams with pride and laughs with excitement whenever she successfully plays the beat by herself.
Discuss how social learning theory could account for Amara learning to play the drum beat. Refer to the description above 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.