Which mediational process involves remembering the behaviour?

Which mediational process involves remembering the behaviour?

• A. Attention
• B. Retention
• C. Motor Reproduction
• D. Motivation

Answer: (B)

Remembering the behaviour is about forming a memory of what was observed so it can be recalled later for imitation. This is the retention stage of Bandura's mediational processes. After you attend to a model and encode the observed actions, you store a mental representation that you can retrieve later, even after a delay, to guide your own actions. Without retention, you might notice and imitate nothing because the steps aren’t held in memory. The other processes have different roles: attention is about noticing and focusing on the model; motor reproduction is the actual ability to perform the observed actions; motivation is the drive to imitate based on expected outcomes.

Remembering the behaviour is about forming a memory of what was observed so it can be recalled later for imitation. This is the retention stage of Bandura's mediational processes. After you attend to a model and encode the observed actions, you store a mental representation that you can retrieve later, even after a delay, to guide your own actions. Without retention, you might notice and imitate nothing because the steps aren’t held in memory. The other processes have different roles: attention is about noticing and focusing on the model; motor reproduction is the actual ability to perform the observed actions; motivation is the drive to imitate based on expected outcomes.