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             Observational learning is the backbone of one of Bandura's five human competencies, the ability to be vicarious. When discussing vicariousness, it is related to Bandura's studies on child aggression. One example would be observing how aggressive children can become when they are influenced by violent media. What Bandura finds is that his results are out of place from behaviorist ideas because the children develop good behavior without obtaining rewards or getting punished. After Bandura uncovered this, he tried to find an actual interpretation to his discovery. This would lead him away from behaviorist thinking.
             He started by going over the steps involved in observational learning (modeling).
             Bandura wrote, "to learn anything by watching others one needs to be paying attention to them." If you watch an object closely it becomes the key element in determining how well your behavior is from observing the object or model. For example, if an observer is ill or tired this can decrease their learning ability from the model. The competing stimuli can also prevent an observer from actually learning. Attention is therefore impaired. On the other hand, a model can lure an observer into learning it's behavior by distracting the observer. Distracting an observer can be done by using language and imagery. If I were to see a person having a blast jumping rope it would be stimulate me to try and learn his or her technique. If the object or model wants attention by using distracting or noticeable language, observers will pay more attention. The same goes if the model is pretty or handsome, and has other admiring characteristics about them. How closely models see similarities in ot!
             her models also affects how they observe and identify with the model. This makes attention greatly affect how the model is observed.
             Attention is immediately followed by retention. Retention is known as the ability to remembe...