Question

What is a weakness of the social-learning approach to personality?

Answer 1

Evaluation:

Explanation:

Positives:
- Takes both nature and nurture into account.
- This is important as it helps to explain how you learn through both
the environment and mental processes
- Explains how children from people around them as well as through the media
- This helps to explain how “social norms” come around and are
transmitted

Negatives:
- Doesn’t account for free will
- This makes it deterministic as according to the theory it is possible
to instantly learn a behaviour just through watching. Simply because we see someone being rewarded or punished doesn’t mean we will/won’t immediately copy the behaviour
- Ungeneralizable to all ages:
- Most research was done on children. This doesn’t mean that you can generalise the results to adults.