Maria Gowdy

P2: Using the following example, explain the value of social learning approach to health and social care provision.

-Using the concepts of social learning theory, explain how it could be applied to the promotion of healthy behaviours (e.g. taking up exercise, wearing a cycle helmet)

Bandura’s Social Learning Theory posits that people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modelling. The theory has often been called a bridge between behaviourist and cognitive learning theories because it encompasses attention, memory, and motivation.

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Albert Bandura was an American psychologist; he explained that learning involved observing people and modelling their behaviour. For us to learn off other people availability, attention, retention, reproduction and motivation needs to be present. Latent learning is when learning has taken place and stored in our memory till a later date when it is appropriate to use it, this concept explains why sometimes behaviour seems to come from nowhere.

Everyone is a role model in their own way, as someone will at some stage observe what you’re doing and store it in their mind. People who are less ...

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