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Social Learning Theory

Many theories surround the idea of learning; one I decided to look into is social learning theory. Social Learning Theory or (SLT) is the theory that people learn new behavior through observational learning of the social factors in their environment. Basically humans or mammals overall learn from each other just from being around them physically to act on the same motives. It can be seen as strictly and observant style of learning which in some situations can be good just like any other. The whole theory was first created by Albert Bandura (Defined). A major factor of the theory is not only imitating others actions and learning them but by being either punished or rewarded for them as well. Reciprocal determinism is emphasized throughout the Social Learning Theory. It uses several steps to finally reach a true social learning experiment. At first you have to get the attention and make one concentrate and study actions, then retention, most humans need to be reminded of things to retain the information. Reproduction is the third step and it takes a lot of practice for some and less for others. Lastly is just the motivation to want to accept the new action learned and to embrace it (Wikimedia Foundation).

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