Analysis Of Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory

Have you ever wondered why your younger sibling or cousin followed you around and started to copy the little things that you do? Children act a certain way usually because they witnessed someone else doing so. When they do this, they are following Albert Bandura’s learning theory that consists of imitation and modeling. Albert Bandura is well-known psychologist for his work in the learning theory. As cited by Belsky (2016), the definition of the social learning theory is “a behavioral worldview that emphasizes that people learn by watching others and that our thoughts about the reinforces determine our behavior.” People will imitate others whom they categorize themselves with. What you model at age 2 will differ than what you model at age 20,

He believed in reciprocal determinism, which is the idea that the world and a person’s behavior cause each other (David, 2016). Bandura agrees with classical conditioning and operant conditioning, but he adds two important ideas of his own. His ideas are that: mediating processes occur between stimuli and process and behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning. With this you can see that conclude that humans will behave in a way based on the stimuli presented. Also, we can see that behavior is influenced by the environment around us (McLeod,

The subjects who were exposed to the real-life aggressive models showed higher levels of aggression than those who saw the cartoon model. Filmed aggression shaped the subjects’ aggressive behavior. Also, the subject’s sex had a significiant effect on the learning and performance of aggression. Boys were more aggressive than girls in the meansures of: imitative aggression, aggressive gun play, and more nonimiative aggressive behavior. Girls were more likely to sit on the Bobo dollm but did not usually punch it. Subjects who were exposed to the male model were more inclined to aggressive behavior than when exposed to the female model. These results suggest that media can have great effects on a child’s social and aggressive behavior (Bandura et al., 1963). Also, witnessessing aggression in any setting will influence children’s behavior and how they perceive it. It is easy to conclude that children will follow the behavior of people of the same gender of them. Children usually think that aggressive behavior is acceptable since someone else is doing