Bandura's Social Learning Theory
The Bobo doll experiment was a classic experiment in psychology that conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 (Bandura, 1965, as cited in Bartol & Bartol, 2014). This experiment used Bandura's social learning theory to explain the causes of aggressive behavior. In the experiment, children behave aggressively towards the Bobo doll after watching an adult model preform aggressive act (Bandura, 1965, as cited in Bartol & Bartol, 2014). Bandura also measure reinforcement variables that include reward, punishment, or experience no consequence for the performance.
Individually, I agree with Bandura’s social learning theory. The biological perspective explain dysfunctions in human brain play a role in origin of aggression and the cognitive perspective explains the cognitive scripts model, where the way cognitive processes influence aggressive behavior in individuals (Lahey, 2012; Huesmann, 1997, as cited in Bartol & Bartol, 2014). However, both of these perspectives have shortage in explaining aggressive behaviors may be learned through observing and modeling.
Based on the social learning theory, it explains the children judge and evaluates the risk value and reward for the performance. According to Bartol and Bartol (2014), the hypothesis of this theory is aggressive behaviors are learned through observation on aggressive models or …show more content…
experience it through the early stage and reinforcement to maintain the behaviors. Besides Bandura mentioned that the observers may not show the same behavior in the future for the cause of mere exposure to aggressive models as some conditions may prevent it (Bartol & Bartol, 2014).
In my opinion, this video only portrayed the learning of violence to some extent.
In Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment, it showed that exposure to media violence play a role in the performance of aggressive behavior. The experiment was occurred in a laboratory setting; therefore it was supposed that the confounding variables were controlled. However, the results of the experiment may not applicable to the real-life setting. There are other factors that could play role in explaining in what way violence is learned, for example peers pressure, socioeconomic, parenting, social environment and other psychosocial factors (Sharma & Marimuthu,
2014). Besides, Bandura did not mention about the long term effect of the aggressive behavior but the short term only. The children may be well educate and develop good morality as well as ability of reasoning, thus the aggressive behavior might be changed in future. Based on Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, children start to understand reversibility, some simple logical operations and logical reasoning during the concrete operational period, which is age of 7 to 11 (Lahey, 2012). In conclusion, Bandura’s social learning theory has provided useful perspectives to the sources of origins of aggression. Nevertheless, it is lack of validity to present wide-ranging understanding in aggressive behavior. There is lack of understanding on in what way distinctive perspectives can relate to classify the factors that cause aggression. Hence, distinctive perspectives should be contained to measure in order to have better understand in aggression.
Individually, I agree with Bandura’s social learning theory. The biological perspective explain dysfunctions in human brain play a role in origin of aggression and the cognitive perspective explains the cognitive scripts model, where the way cognitive processes influence aggressive behavior in individuals (Lahey, 2012; Huesmann, 1997, as cited in Bartol & Bartol, 2014). However, both of these perspectives have shortage in explaining aggressive behaviors may be learned through observing and modeling.
Based on the social learning theory, it explains the children judge and evaluates the risk value and reward for the performance. According to Bartol and Bartol (2014), the hypothesis of this theory is aggressive behaviors are learned through observation on aggressive models or …show more content…
experience it through the early stage and reinforcement to maintain the behaviors. Besides Bandura mentioned that the observers may not show the same behavior in the future for the cause of mere exposure to aggressive models as some conditions may prevent it (Bartol & Bartol, 2014).
In my opinion, this video only portrayed the learning of violence to some extent.
In Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment, it showed that exposure to media violence play a role in the performance of aggressive behavior. The experiment was occurred in a laboratory setting; therefore it was supposed that the confounding variables were controlled. However, the results of the experiment may not applicable to the real-life setting. There are other factors that could play role in explaining in what way violence is learned, for example peers pressure, socioeconomic, parenting, social environment and other psychosocial factors (Sharma & Marimuthu,
2014). Besides, Bandura did not mention about the long term effect of the aggressive behavior but the short term only. The children may be well educate and develop good morality as well as ability of reasoning, thus the aggressive behavior might be changed in future. Based on Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, children start to understand reversibility, some simple logical operations and logical reasoning during the concrete operational period, which is age of 7 to 11 (Lahey, 2012). In conclusion, Bandura’s social learning theory has provided useful perspectives to the sources of origins of aggression. Nevertheless, it is lack of validity to present wide-ranging understanding in aggressive behavior. There is lack of understanding on in what way distinctive perspectives can relate to classify the factors that cause aggression. Hence, distinctive perspectives should be contained to measure in order to have better understand in aggression.