A community cinema uses young volunteers to sell tickets. Rowan, aged 18, is admired by the volunteers because he is trusted to supervise ticket sales. Imani and Lucy are both aged 16. They each see Rowan put some of the ticket money into his own pocket.
| Volunteer | Background compared with Rowan | Contact with Rowan | Rowan's behaviour towards the volunteer | Number of occasions on which the volunteer sees Rowan take money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imani | Same neighbourhood and similar family circumstances | Works with him three times each week | Friendly and includes her | 3 |
| Lucy | Different area and different family circumstances | Works with him once each month | Polite but distant | 1 |
Using social learning theory, describe how identification with Rowan could make one volunteer more likely than the other to copy his behaviour when later left to sell tickets alone.
135 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 1.2 Theories/Explanations of why criminal/anti-social behaviour occurs, covering 1.2.1 SLT: identification with role models, 1.2.2 SLT: observation and imitation, 1.2.3 SLT: vicarious reinforcement, 1.2.4 SLT: direct reinforcement and internalisation; criticisms, 1.2.5 SLT research study: Cooper and Mackie (1986), 1.2.6 Eysenck's Criminal Personality Theory, 1.2.7 CNS, arousal and criminal personality, 1.2.8 Brain function, synapses and dopamine in psychoticism, 1.2.9 Dopamine reward, RAS and cortex in extroversion, 1.2.10 Autonomic nervous and limbic system in neuroticism, 1.2.11 Early socialisation and conditioning; criticisms, and 1.2.12 Criminal Personality research study: Heaven (1996). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.