What Are Alternative Learning Methods?

Alternative learning is also called "observation learning." Learners observe the behavior and results of role models in a given situation without the need for direct reinforcement. In experiments, psychologist Bandura found that after children were shown a video of role models playing and kicking plastic dolls, when they played the same doll alone, they had more aggression responses to abused dolls than children who had not seen the above videos. Although these children did not practice direct aggression and were not directly strengthened, they learned aggressive behavior. In the 1965 experiment, three groups of preschool children were watched in three films. There were also scenes of kicking dolls. The difference was that a third person appeared in the film to reward, punish or neither reward nor punish the role model . As a result, children who watched the example of punished movies of beating the dolls had less aggressive behavior than the other two groups. ^[1]