Bandura's Social Learning Theory posits that people learn social behavior by observing and imitating others and by receiving rewards or punishments.

• A. Observing and Imitating and Being Rewarded or Punished
• B. Inheriting Biologically Determined Behavior
• C. Intrinsic Motivation Alone
• D. Learning Only from Books

Answer: (A)

The idea being tested is that learning social behavior comes from watching others, copying what they do, and noticing the consequences that follow those actions. Bandura shows that people pick up new behaviors by observing models, then imitate them, especially when the observed behavior appears to be rewarded or avoided punishment. reinforcement isn’t limited to what happens directly to the observer; it can be vicarious—seeing someone else rewarded or punished can influence our own likelihood of reproducing the behavior. This combination—observing, imitating, and receiving or witnessing rewards or punishments—encompasses how social learning operates in real-life situations, making it the best description of Bandura’s theory. Inheriting biology, intrinsic motivation alone, or learning only from books don’t capture the social-modeling and reinforcement processes central to this theory.