Social Learning Theory

What did Bandura and Walters (1963) believe?

What does the Social learning theory (SLT) suggest?

What is this not to suggest?

What does a person's biological make-up create?

How do children primarily learn their aggressive behaviour?

What does Skinner's operant conditioning theory claim?

Whereas what does Bandura suggest?

What do children also observe and learn about?

What is this called?

Where do children witness examples of aggressive behaviour?

What does a child learn by observing the consequences of aggressive behaviour for those who use it?

Thus what do they learn?

What did Bandura (1986) claim?

What must the child also do?

What will the child do when appropriate opportunities arise in the future?

Production of behaviour comes from maintenance through direct experience. What will happen if a child is rewarded (gets what he wants or praised by others)?

What will a child who has a history of successfully bullying other children come to do?

In addition to forming expectancies of the likely outcomes of their aggression, what have children also developed?

What do children who have not been very good at carrying out aggressive actions in the past have?

Where did research support for the predictions of the SLT come from?

What did the first experiment (1961) involve?

Who were the participants?

What was the first step in the experiment?

What did the aggressive model display?

What happened following the exposure to the model?

Where were they then taken?

What did the children in the aggressive condition do?

What did children in the non-aggressive condition do?

What did approximately one third of the children in the aggressive condition do?

Was there a gender difference in the imitation of aggressive behaviour?

Although this study tells us that children do acquire aggressive responses as a result of watching others, what does it not tell us?

What did Bandura and Walters' find in a later study (1963)?

What did Bandura call this type of learning?

Is there a validity issue with Bandura's studies?

What does Noble (1975) report that supports this validity issue?

Is there ecological validity?

What did Bandura do in response to this criticism?

What is research support for the role of punishment? Did the children in group 2 of Bandura's study show low levels of aggression because the punishment prevented learning or did the punishment prevent performance of behaviour?

In this case, what happened?

What does this show?

The studies have applied to children but does SLT explain adult behaviour as well?

What does this suggest?

What is a major strength of the SLT?

What is a second strength of this theory?

What does the 'culture of violence' theory (Wolfgang and Ferracuti, 1967) propose?

What may some cultures emphasise and model?

Among the !Kung San of the Kalahari Desert, aggression is rare, why is this the case?

What can differences within individuals be related to?

Are there ethical issues?

What does that mean as a result of these ethical issues?