Social Learning Theory of Aggression
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- Created on: 12-02-18 11:15
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- Social Learning Theory of Aggression
- There are three ways in which we learn behaviour which are:
- Mental Represention: Children form a mental representation of events and possible rewards/ punishments.
- If the opportunity arises, the child will repeat the behaviour if the reward is greater than punishment.
- Observation: watching the behaviour of role models and imitating the behaviour (Bandura)
- Vicarious reinforcementchildren observe and learn about impacts of other people's behaviour.
- Product of Behaviour
- Self-efficacy - children form expediencies of aggression and develop confidence in aggressive acts
- Maintenance through experience - If a child is rewarded they are likely to repeat the behaviour. (bullying)
- Mental Represention: Children form a mental representation of events and possible rewards/ punishments.
- Bobo Doll study
- Boys and girls from 3 to 5. Half watched an adult being aggr. with a bobo doll and the other half did not
- The models struck the bobo doll on the head with a mallet, kicking it and shouting at it.
- Then both groups went into a room with a bobo doll and other toys.
- Children in the aggr. condition imitated the aggr. behaviour of the model
- Children in the non aggr, group exhibited virtually no aggr. behaviour
- Evalutation
- Kung San tribe in South Africa have little aggr. because they don' punish or reward aggr behaviour
- The APA believes that if aggr. behaviour can be learned than it can be unlearned the same way
- Gee and Leith (2007) - North American hockey players more aggr. than people from other countries
- Inconsistency - school is more punishment and friends is more status
- Lack of realism - bobo doll is not living so may not reflect real life behaviour
- There are three ways in which we learn behaviour which are:
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