Teaching Activity: I Want to be Mummy (Social Learning Theory)

This activity is designed to help students remember the mediational processes involved in social learning theory and it also helps them think about applying them to a behaviour.

The mediational processes are a key ingredient to social learning theory. They explain why we may not imitate behaviour and represent the cognitive element of the theory.

By using a cartoon of the processes occurring, the student has a greater chance of remembering the four processes and has a ready-made example that they have devised in case a description of the role the processes play is asked about on the exam paper.