Aggression

Aggression

1. Social Learning Theory

   • Bandura and Walters
     • Aggression could not be explained using traditional LT (direct experience responsible)
     • STL = we learn by observing others
     • We learn the specifics of aggressive behaviour
     • a persons biological make up creates a potential for aggression
     • it is the actual expression of aggression that is learned
     • Bandura's bobo doll study illustrates this
       • children observed aggressive and non aggressive adult models and then tested for imitative learning in the absence of the model