Practice question · Multiple choice
A child watches an aggressive model, can describe the actions perfectly, and is physically able to perform them - yet does not. Which of Bandura's four processes has not been satisfied, and what does the case show about the other three?
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- The question tells you three of the four are satisfied. Read what each of those three requires.
- She can. She does not. What is the difference between those two words?
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C. Motivation, since attention, retention and reproduction are intact.
Why
The case isolates the last process: she watched, she can describe it, she is physically able, everything needed is in place and the behaviour is absent, so what is missing is a reason. Observational learning can be complete and invisible, which is why the model has four processes rather than three.
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