Social Learning Theory: Bobo Doll Experiment By Albert Bandura

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The first subcategory is called the “Social Learning Theory”, which dictates that a person’s behavior is learned through negative external observations (Siegel & Worrall, 2013, p. 50). One example of the “Social Learning Theory” is the Bobo doll experiment conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961. In this experiment children were either exposed to an adult exhibiting aggressive behavior or non-aggressive behavior towards the doll. When it came time for the children to interact with the doll, the children who were exposed to aggressive behavior were more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior (Nolen, n.d.). The second subcategory is called the “Social Control Theory, which is described as every person is capable of becoming a criminal but choose

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