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Imitation - Copying behaviour of others Identification - When an observer associates themselves with a role model and wants to be like the role model. live models - e.g teaches, siblings, parents symbolic models - people in the media Modelling - From the observer's perspective, its imitating behaviour of the role model. From the role model's perspective, its the precise demonstration of a specific behaviour that may be imitated by the observer. Vicarious reinforcement - Not directly experienced but occurs through observing someone else being reinforced for their behaviour - key factor in imitation. Mediational processes - Cognitive factors that influence learning a behaviour and come between stimulus and response. for modelling to occur there must be attention, retention,motor reproduction, motivation. Attention - noticing certain behaviorus Retention - remembering the behaviour Motor reproduction - whether the behaviour is physically possible to carry out. Motivation - there has to be a reason to want to copy their behaviour Cognitive approach - -Focused on how our mental processes affect behaviour