What extent does media violence leads towards aggression

The topic I have chosen is to discuss is how media violence plays in aggression in young adults and children. Albert Bandura developed the social learning theory. Bandura did a bobo doll experiment in 1961 and 1963, which studied children's behaviors after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a bobo doll. There were 36 boys and 36 girls between the ages of 37 to 69 months old from Stanford University nursery. The children were split up into 4 different groups that were controlled by half of them that were with the same sex or different sex. Each child was not with the other one due to any possible influences, and there were different scenarios for the two stages in the experiment. His results for the bobo doll experiment concluded that males have more aggressive tendencies than females. I completely agree that violent behaviors come from the influence from our society. The social learning theory indicates that social behavior (any type of behavior that we display socially) is learned primarily by observing and imitating the actions of others. “The social behavior is also influenced, according to this theory, by being rewarded and/or punished for these actions” (Isom, 1998, par.#2). But not only that, I agree that violent behavior comes from the video games we play, the movies and television shows we watch, and the news that comes on the television. I do agree that media violence does play a role to real world violence, aggression, and influence. In the social learning theory, I agree with Albert Bandura experiment’s, not what the experimenter’s said against his theory, because children’s brains are like sponges and will absorb anything that they see on television and in society; eventually the children will think it is okay to be violent. Children keep the cycle going for the aggression and violence in the real world. For my first claim, I know that school shootings and massacres have increased since the April 20, 1999 Columbine High School