Theory 70: Social Learning Theory

Number of Constructs: 18
Number of Triples: 30

Theory triples

• Imitation influences Response
• Drive influences Response
• Extinction transitions to Spontaneous recovery
• Spontaneous recovery influences Response
• Discrimination influences Cue
• Generalisation influences Cue
• Gradient of reward influences Reward
• Generalisation influences Anticipatory response
• Extinction negatively influences Response
• Spontaneous recovery positively influences Response
• Anticipatory response correlates with Gradient of reward
• Innate drives type of Drive
• Acquired drives type of Drive
• Innate rewards type of Reward
• Acquired rewards type of Reward
• Response influences (*) Drive
• Response influences (*) Response
• Response influences (*) Extinction
• Response influences (*) Discrimination
• Response influences (*) Generalisation
• Response influences (*) Gradient of reward
• Reward influences (*) Drive
• Reward influences (*) Response
• Reward influences (*) Extinction
• Reward influences (*) Discrimination
• Reward influences (*) Generalisation
• Reward influences (*) Gradient of reward
• Matched-dependent behaviour type of Imitation
• Same behaviour type of Imitation
• Copying type of Imitation

Theory constructs and annotations

• Imitation The process of copying the behaviour of another person, group, or object, intentionally or unintentionally; consists of same behaviour, matched dependent behaviour and copying [ GO:0098596 (Imitative learning) 70 59 ]
• Response A clearly defined, measurable unit of behaviour following a certain cue, in the presence of a certain drive [ BCIO:036000 (Individual human behaviour) 70 8 5 14 62 63 64 78 81 65 77 13 55 74 79 24 18 53 54 57 69 71 ]
• Drive The motivation or desire to act or respond, a covert stimulus that triggers action [ BCIO:006133 (Behavioural motivation) 70 8 31 56 41 30 74 12 54 60 67 ]
• Extinction The decrease in the tendency for a response to be performed when it repeatedly goes without reward [ BCIO:006123 (Extinction in operant learning) 70 ]
• Spontaneous recovery The tendency towards recovery of an extinguished response, such that, some time after the extinction occurs, the response may be attempted again [ BCIO:050838 (Spontaneous recovery behaviour) 70 ]
• Discrimination The process by which people learn to distinguish between appropriate responses to similar but different cues depending on whether a generalised response is rewarded or not [ BCIO:006121 (Discrimination learning) 70 ]
• Cue Stimulus that serves to guide behaviour, determines when/where a person will respond, and which response he/she will make [ BCIO:050578 (Behavioural cue) 70 77 66 27 29 ]
• Generalisation The process by which the effects of learning in one situation are transferred to another [ BCIO:006124 (Generalisation in learning) 70 ]
• Gradient of reward An increase or decrease in the effectiveness of the reward depending on the temporal proximity between response and rewards [ BCIO:007252 (Provide positive consequence for behaviour BCT) 70 , BFO:0000008 (temporal region) 70 65 ]
• Reward Stimulus (identical to reinforcement) that strengthens the tendency for a person to make certain responses to certain cues in the presence of drives [ BCIO:050756 (Reinforcer) 70 43 4 ]
• Anticipatory response The process through which responses that are temporally more proximal to a reward will, wherever possible, become earlier in the sequence than they were originally
• Innate drives Motivations to act or respond that exist in an organism from birth and form the primary basis for the greater proportion of motivation (e.g. pain, hunger, thirst) [ BCIO:050680 (innate drive) 70 ]
• Acquired drives Elaborations of innate drives, serve as a façade behind which the functions of the underlying innate drives are hidden (e.g. fear, appetite) [ BCIO:050561 (acquired drive) 70 ]
• Innate rewards Events producing a reduction in drives (e.g. lessened hunger) [ BCIO:050741 (Primary reinforcer) 70 ]
• Acquired rewards Previously neutral stimuli that have acquired reward value through learning [ BCIO:050620 (Conditioned positive reinforcer) 70 ]
• Matched-dependent behaviour Form of imitation that occurs when the observer uses the model’s actions as a discriminative cue to locate rewards; instrumental use of a model’s performance to gain rewards by an observer; separate instrumental learning [ GO:0098597 (Observational learning) 70 57 80 49 ]
• Same behaviour The instance in which two people have the same response to same cue and are stimulated to do so independently; The same external stimulus (but not the social situation or relationship of the model) and the observer is responsible for evoking similar behaviour [ BCIO:036000 (Individual human behaviour) 70 8 5 14 62 63 64 78 81 65 77 13 55 74 79 24 18 53 54 57 69 71 ]
• Copying Form of imitation that occurs when an observer seeks to optimize the accuracy of his/her behaviour to that of a model, whereby one brings one's behaviour to approximate that of a model and where one knows that this act is an acceptable replication of the model act; includes contingent rewards based on sameness and differences cues which are based on the closeness of the match between a model’s and an observer’s behavior [ GO:0098596 (Imitative learning) 70 59 ]

Theory illustration

Theory Reference

• Miller, N.E. & Dollard, J. (1945). Social Learning and Imitation. London, UK: Kegan Paul.