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Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Motivation to learn: an overview of contemporary theories. How Does Observational Learning Produce Placebo Effects? A Model Integrating Research Findings. Understanding Observational Learning: An Interbehavioral Approach. Do We Need the Environment to Explain Operant Behavior? Front Psychol. For example, if you see another student rewarded with extra credit for being to class on time, you might start to show up a few minutes early each day. While experiencing these motivators can be highly effective, so can observing others experiencing some type of reinforcement or punishment. Motivation: Finally, in order for observational learning to be successful, you have to be motivated to imitate the behavior that has been modeled. Reinforcement and punishment play an important role in motivation.

Further practice of the learned behavior leads to improvement and skill advancement.

Reproduction: Once you have paid attention to the model and retained the information, it is time to actually perform the behavior you observed.

Retention can be affected by a number of factors, but the ability to pull up information later and act on it is vital to observational learning.

Retention: The ability to store information is also an important part of the learning process. Social change processes are series of actions that trigger changes in the conditions and functions of a social system and may or may not cause social impacts, while a social impact is a physical or perceptual change experienced by humans as individuals and at higher levels of aggregation (Vanclay, 2002).

If the model is interesting or there is a novel aspect of the situation, you are far more likely to dedicate your full attention to learning. Anything that distracts your attention is going to have a negative effect on observational learning. Attention: In order to learn, you need to be paying attention.

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