Lecaros, Xavier D.II-16 BEEDPROF. ED 3: THEORIES OF LEARNINGLearning Diary No. 4

Last session, Ms. Jackielyn Zapata discussed to us about Social Learning Theory where she emphasized that this is the combination of Behaviorism and Cognitive factors. She stressed the importance of observing and modeling behavior, attitudes and emotional reactions of others. This means that this theory focuses on the social context which means that people learn or observing from one another. She also introduced to us Albert Bandura. The father of Social Learning Theory. She mentioned his background or his biography which comprises the date he is born and what he do. She also discussed the ideas in Social Learning Theory which scopes the reciprocal causation and personal agency where it emphasizes the response-reinforcement contingencies. It also scopes the expectations and self-efficacy, in which people set high goals for them to exert more effort in facing those obstacles and achieve high levels. It also comprises the Modeling where in people learn through observing others. This may be a live model or an actual person they are imitating or symbolic model or a person or character that is portrayed in a medium. The ideas of this theory includes the aggression which resulted from the several negative of an individual his/her surroundings. It consist also the self-regulation where in people reflect or observe what will happen to themselves and cultivate reflection if the action that they will do is right or wrong. Lastly, she also enumerated the social learning theories which are social cognitive theory, social-cultural theory, social-critical theory, cooperative learning approaches and transformation theory. At the end of the report, I learned that this theory underlined that people learn through watching other people and perform the behavior. It sort of imitating other peoples behavior. This explains that children learn through modeling or watching behavior of other people around them and imitate the behavior they have. This called other people could be a live model, which is an actual person performing a behavior and a symbolic model which either real or fictional character demonstrating a behavior via media. However, it could also alarming if a child watches other people that perform inappropriate behavior such as stealing, lying and etc. It might resulted for them to imitate the behavior that others have. As a future teacher, its our job to guide the students in doing things and make them understand of what is right or wrong. This is not only applicable to the teachers but also to the parents. Its their job to introduce their job of what are right or wrong actions and help them understand that not all other people behavior they demonstrated is appropriate or correct otherwise the child might outgrow and habited those behaviours.