Social Learning Reflection

This reflection has been written to explore my own attitude regarding learning and how it affects my personal development in the health and social care setting. I will introduce my preferred learning style. I will analyse difficulties which can occur with learning and present personal strategies to overcome them. I will be implementing different theories to underpin my strategies and to analyse their reliability.

There are a variety of domains of learning in health and social care such as Bloom’s Taxonomy of the cognitive domain; “this includes knowledge and the resulting development of intellectual skills. The psychomotor domain contains the physical movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas. The affective domain includes the

The following provided example will be used to analyse Banduras’ Social Learning Theory (1963) and how it relates to my personal learning and development of understanding skills in health and social care. As a student nurse, I learned to give subcutaneous injections. The procedures were clear. However, one time I was busy and I forgot to double check the patients’ name. The result was that I gave Ms. Schmid, Ms. Schmidt’s injection. The names are equal, except one letter. This caused confusion and by not following the right procedures, I made that mistake. My inappropriate behaviour could have led to fatal health consequences for the patient. The good news was the dose and the medication were too low to affect the patients’ health. However, the patient must be monitored and the incidence recorded. According to Banduras’ SLT (1963), there are four principles of

All four principles describe exactly my learning progress. The biggest evidence that this theory really works is that I didn’t forget my mistake (Motivation) after that long time (25 years). Learning is depending on different factors. My own willingness but also the environment can influence the effectiveness of my learning. I will use Vygotsky’s social learning theory (1978) who usually get used to explain child’s development, to underpin my conclusion. I will use my completed course leader training program as an example. Vygotsky theory has 3 main themes. He believes that social interaction plays a fundamental role in the process of cognitive development. This means I get experience by; observing, listening and following the verbal instruction of my trainer.

By trying to understand what I have observed and by repeating and internalizing the instructions while learning to apply them on me.” Vygotsky called this collaborative or cooperative dialogue. He called the tutor in this role the “more knowledgeable other” (MKO), according to (Vygotsky ,1978). The importance in that part is that I learned from somebody (trainer) more