CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Janet, a nine-year-old, hears her father swearing at someone over the telephone. The next day, she imitates her father and swears at another child in the school. According to Albert Bandura’s social learning theory, this is an example of ____
A
reinforcment
B
imprinting
C
modeling
D
conditioning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It was a famous experiment that describes the observational leaning. He told how observation learning affects the behavior of children. Thus here Jenet a nine-year-old who hears his father was swearing at someone to observe and perform the same behavior at another child in school.

Detailed explanation-2: -Observational Learning Examples for Children An infant learns to make and understand facial expressions. A child learns to chew. After witnessing an older sibling being punished for taking a cookie without asking, the younger child does not take cookies without permission. A child learns to walk.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a model? A model is the person performing the task being imitated. In the example of a child learning to swear, the model is the parent that said the swear word. The child is using their parent as a model that they observe performing a behavior.

Detailed explanation-4: -observational learning, method of learning that consists of observing and modeling another individual’s behavior, attitudes, or emotional expressions.

Detailed explanation-5: -Skinner studied and developed the operant conditioning theory that is popular today. After conducting several animal experiments, Skinner (1938) published his first book, The Behavior of Organisms.

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