Bandura
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- Created on: 24-02-23 13:37
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- Bandura's Theory
- Claims
- People learn by watching their role model's behaviour.
- So, criminals learn how to reoffend.
- If children watch adults gain pleasure from an activity, they will reject or repeat the behaviours.
- Aggression can be learned from watching others behave in that manner and not be punished.
- Attention to the role model.
- Retention of the observed behaviour.
- Reproduction of the target behaviour.
- Motivation to imitate the observed behaviour.
- Reproduction of the target behaviour.
- Retention of the observed behaviour.
- People learn by watching their role model's behaviour.
- Components
- Bobo doll experiment.
- Focused on children watching an adult being aggressive towards bobo doll.
- Three groups of children watching different videos.
- 1. Control group- saw model being aggressive.
- 2. Reward group- saw model being rewarded.
- 3. Punishment group- model was punished.
- Conclusion- children showed video of model being punished showed the least agression.
- Bobo doll experiment.
- Credibility
- Theory is based on data collected through observation and experience.
- There was a control group.
- It was a lab experiment and highly controlled- scientific status.
- It accounts for high reoffending rates in UK.
- Reductionist- doesnt take biological differences into account.
- Analysis
- 10% of families in UK account for 2/3 of criminals.
- McCrary family
- Responsible for at least 22 abductions.
- Responsible for murders, robberies and countless other offences.
- The children have seen their parents do this and get away with it.
- So, the children observe and imitate them.
- Refuting Evidence
- Research lacks ecological validity as the sampling behaviour- occurs in real life situations.
- Study involves a child and adult in a limited social situation.
- Observation normally takes place within family.
- As children are familiar with the adults.
- Observation normally takes place within family.
- Doesn't explain why people that aren't exposed still commit criminal acts.
- And people who are exposed aren't criminals.
- Supporting Evidence
- Sutherland's Differential Association
- Criminal behaviour is learned.
- The learning is through association with other people.
- Main part of learning takes place within close personal groups.
- The learning includes techniques to carry our certain crimes.
- Specific attitudes and motives conducive towards committing crime.
- Process of learning criminal behaviour is no different to learning normal behaviour.
- Sutherland's Differential Association
- Claims
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