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This 5 page paper examines the social learning view of aggression, and how environmental conditions can provoke aggressive behavior. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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puzzled and uncertain what to do in situations where these feelings arise. Were also sometimes puzzled about where such feelings originate. This paper examines the social learning view
of aggression, and how environmental conditions can provoke aggressive behavior. Social Learning Theory Perhaps the most famous person associated with social learning theory is Albert Bandura. He
believed that children were not born with aggressive tendencies, but learned them from various sources, including the environment. The experiment for which he is best known, the "bobo doll
studies," forms the basis for much of social learning theory. In this experiment, Bandura made a film of a young woman, one of his students, "essentially beating up a
bobo doll" (Boeree, 1998). [A bobo doll is an inflatable doll thats weighted at the bottom so that it pops right back up when its knocked down.] The
young woman kicked the doll, punched it, sat on it and hit it with a small hammer, yelling "sockeroo!" as she did so (Boeree, 1998). Bandura showed this
film to groups of kindergartners, who liked it a lot, and who were then sent to a playroom; there was a bobo doll in the room, along with several small
hammers (plus scientific observers) (Boeree, 1998). The children beat the daylights out of the doll, hitting it, kicking it, sitting on it, hitting it with hammers, yelling "sockeroo!"; in
other words, they "imitated the young lady in the film, and quite precisely at that" (Boeree, 1998). Although the experiment is extremely simple, it had vast implications. First, the
children were not given any particular instructions or encouragement before they went to the playroom, they went in and began to beat up the doll without anything further being said
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