Reflection on week 9

Assalamualaikum everyone. How are you? I hope everybody who read this blog will always fine and get blessing from Allah S.W.T. Today, we’re going to share with you our lesson in the class for this week. As usual, we had so much fun in the class because we got much information about the topic that we learned. Before I forgot, this week’s topic is Social Cognitive Theory. For this time, method of this learning was teacher centered learning where Madam gives explanation to the students and the students listen and give response with what had the Madam said and teaches.

Okay, let’s go straight to the content of this topic. On 6^th October 2012, we learned about Social Cognitive Theory such as the theory of Bandura. In this theory, Bandura stress about modeling in which the way people behave after they learned from people they saw as their modeling.  According to this theory, people can learn by observing the behaviors of others which known as models. Besides, this learning will not necessarily reflect their actions but may be reflected in behavior exhibited at the same time, later time, or never. But, do you ever think how this earning occurs? Social cognitive theorist said that, cognitive processes as attention and retention (memory) into their explanations of how learning occurs.

Other than that, our Madam also teaches us what the effects of modeling. First and foremost, the effect of modeling is modeling teaches new behaviors by observing others perform those behaviors. For example, when a child saw her/his mother helps the poor by giving sadaqah to them. Then, next time the child follows the mother’s behavior by giving the poor sadaqah. Furthermore, modeling also influences the frequency of previously learned behaviors. It is means that, when people saw the other’s behavior which then they rewarded, it is more likely that people are reinforced to follow that particular behavior. Meanwhile, people are less likely to perform behaviors for which they have seen others being punished. Next, the effect of modeling is modeling may encourage previously forbidden behaviors and last but not least, modeling increases the frequency of similar behaviors.

Moreover, you know what, individuals who are serving as a model tend to have characteristic in order to influence others. Firstly, the model must be competent. Not just that, the model also must have prestige and power like high status, respect, and power. Besides, the model behaves in stereotypical “gender-appropriate” ways which means males are more likely to follow male models and that so with females. Finally, the model’s behavior is relevant to the observer’s situation. Individuals are more likely to follow the behaviors which are similar to them. For instances, a girl is more likely to follow the way her sister dressed if they have similar style of dressing.

Finally, we go to the last subtopic which is the conditions necessary for effective modeling to occur. How to become an individual who is successful to model the behavior of someone else? Here are the answers. According to Bandura, there are four conditions. The first one is attention. The individual must give full attention to the model in order to model that behavior. Then, retention also one of the conditions for effective modeling to occur. After paying attention, the learner must also remember the behavior that has been observed.  Next, come to motor reproduction which is the actual replication of the behavior that a mode has demonstrated. Lastly, the individual must has motivation in order to perform it. If they do not want to demonstrate what they have learned, then, the modeling cannot occur.

We think that is all what we have learned on the first day of this week. Now, we continue with the second day of the week. The topic that we learned during this day is Cognitive Views of Learning. The most important part in this chapter is that we learned about the Gestalt psychology which emphasized the importance of organizational processes in perception, learning, and problem solving. Madam showed to us many pictures regarding this topic. Then, we were asked to try to answer which picture is regard to what category in the Gestalt psychology. We were much enjoyed learned this. Here are some of the pictures. Enjoy~~ J <

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