Author Question: Trudy makes an obscene gesture in class, and the teacher punishes her severely. Other students in ... (Read 136 times)

Mollykgkg · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Trudy makes an obscene gesture in class, and the teacher punishes her severely. Other students in class observe both the gesture and the punishment. Based on social cognitive theory, what can we guess about what those other students have learned and how they are likely to behave in the future?

a. They don't know how to make the gesture, but they know that the teacher will punish them severely for inappropriate behavior.
b. They know how to make the gesture, but they are likely to forget it within a few days.
c. They know how to make the gesture and are likely to make it in class in the future.
d. They know how to make the gesture, but they are unlikely to make it in class.

Question 2

An early theory of imitation, one proposed by Miller and Dollard in 1941, suggested that individuals:

a. Form mental images of the behaviors they observe
b. Are reinforced for imitative behavior
c. Encode imitated behaviors verbally (i.e., by describing to themselves what they have observed)
d. Find imitation to be an intrinsically reinforcing activity