MRCPsych Part A revision podcast on learning theory, covering punishment, observational learning and social learning theory in behavioural psychology. 

This MRCPsych revision episode explores positive and negative punishment, their limitations in behaviour change, and the principles of observational learning within social learning theory.

It explains how punishment can reduce behaviour through consequences, why punishment often fails to produce lasting behavioural change, and how new behaviour can be acquired through modelling and vicarious reinforcement.

The episode also introduces observational learning within social learning theory, first described by Albert Bandura. These concepts frequently appear in MRCPsych Part A clinical vignette questions involving behavioural psychology and learning theory.

This episode maps directly to paragraph 1.1.1 of the Royal College of Psychiatrists membership examination, MRCPsych Part A, syllabus.