1. Behavior Description

While observing everyone at a local park I saw a young boy, around the age of 9, skateboarding. All he was doing was skating back and forth on trying to do any tricks at all. As he was skating an older, much better skateboarder came to the park and began to do tricks that obviously took years of practicing. When the young boy saw all the cool tricks he was doing he looked as if he was impressed and jealous all at once. He got up and started to try and land the tricks the older boy was doing. He became upset that he could not complete the tricks and threw his board and sat down on a bench. The old boy noticed him trying to achieve landing the tricks so he went over and talked to the young boy for a second, go the boy back on the board and begun to teach him a simple trick. It took many tries but the younger boy finally got the trick down and went to go show his mother the new trick he had learned.
The younger boy was very happy and okay with what he was doing on the skateboard. Once her say someone that was better than him he tried to do the same tricks, once he though he couldn’t do them he got mad, crossed his arms, sat down, and pouted. The older boy saw that the younger boy was upset so he kindly went over there to help the younger boy feel better. He realized that he could help by showing the young boy a very simple trick. He had a smile on his face so you know he was enjoying the good deed he was doing for the boy.

2. Concept identification
The little boy was trying to do what the older boy, or the model, was doing. The little boy was trying to learn a new behavior from a model (older boy) by observing what they do. He was observational learning. Observational learning is in chapter five, on page 156. The older boy was also a model or a person the little boy was watching to try and do the same behavior. Modeling or modeling effect, is in chapter five, age 156-7. This whole seen is an example of the Modeling effect which is located in chapter five, page 157.

3. Behavior Explanation
The little boy tries the trick the old boy is doing because the old boy has the same characteristics as the younger boy because they both like to skateboard. This makes the little boy look up to him in away so he tries to do whatever he does. For learned behavior to be performed the model ( older boy ) has to reward the observer ( younger boy ) for their behavior. Since the older boy helped the younger boy out, he showed a good form of modeling for the younger while he observed him. Since the older boy was indeed older this made him felt obligated to help the young boy since he was the superior one at this sport and he could see the young boy looked up to him and did try his hardest but needed help. This entire situation was a perfect example of the modeling effect, which includes modeling, and observational learning.