Question

How is modern social learning theory different than traditional learning theory ?

Answer 1

Modern social learning theory

• The modern social learning theory by behavioriasts like Albert Bandura states that children learn by observing others in a social setting modelled by attention, retention, reproduction and motivation.
• The learning may be positive or negative depending on the context and what the individuals observe to imbibe by trial and error due to reinforcement and punishment.
• Thus the personality of an individual is modelled or reinforced and is therefore influenced by the environmental cause, cognitive interaction and the behavioral response.
• Social learning advocated the importance of observational learning within the genetic boundaries.
• For example: Young children imitating adult

Traditional learning theory

• The traditional learning theory by psychoanalysts like Freud, John Watson and B.F.Skinner states that personality of a person is influenced by both internal interospection and external conditioning factors.
• Traditional learning advocated the importance of operant conditioning where a stimuli leads to the resultant consequence in reflex response
• The learning results in the form of Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism, and the Connectivism.