albert bandura
In the Oxford dictionary, the definition of learn is acquired skills or knowledge through study (Wehmeier, 2000). However from psychology perspective, attitudes, emotional reaction and values are also acquired. There have been numerous research under category of learning, where one of the famous ones is the social learning theory from Albert Bandura (Ormord, 2012). However, there are many issues involved in this theory and also many supportive evidences as well as controversies. Social learning is also known as observational learning, it is a theory that explains how people are influenced by observing other’s behaviors, especially the aggression of children (Bernstein, Penner, Clarke-Stewart, & Roy, 2008). According to Albert Bandura’s social learning theory, children tend to learn from their models or parents who are similar with them, and more significantly from models of the same gender as the child (Kleinma, 2014).
There are three types of models for instance life model who are actual person, verbal model who are described by someone and symbolic model which is character in the book or film. For this reason, children tend to learn aggression from models, that could be characters in their favorite cartoon or their family members as a majority of a child’s time is spent watching television or with their parents or siblings (Ormord, 2012). Moreover, the process of learning can be affected by environment and mental-state. Environmental reinforcement, for instance, the people around the individual or any third party and the punishment. Besides, internal reinforcement of a child play an important role in order to learn the behavior completely, such as, feeling, pride and satisfaction (Kleinma, 2014).
Furthermore, learning a new behavior will not necessarily change a child’s behavior permanently, this is contrary to some behaviorists who argue that in an individual, learning may bring permanent change (Ormord, 2012). However, Social learning theory
There are three types of models for instance life model who are actual person, verbal model who are described by someone and symbolic model which is character in the book or film. For this reason, children tend to learn aggression from models, that could be characters in their favorite cartoon or their family members as a majority of a child’s time is spent watching television or with their parents or siblings (Ormord, 2012). Moreover, the process of learning can be affected by environment and mental-state. Environmental reinforcement, for instance, the people around the individual or any third party and the punishment. Besides, internal reinforcement of a child play an important role in order to learn the behavior completely, such as, feeling, pride and satisfaction (Kleinma, 2014).
Furthermore, learning a new behavior will not necessarily change a child’s behavior permanently, this is contrary to some behaviorists who argue that in an individual, learning may bring permanent change (Ormord, 2012). However, Social learning theory