Social Learning Theory Of Aggression

Introduction:

Aggression is common in our life, especially in children. I want to lead to the concept of aggression through describing the specific example. Using psychology theory to explain aggressive behavior, and to find out why do we attack others and how should we control the behavior from psychology. Especially the famous Bandura’s social learning theory in the psychological history. Finally, I summarize on my view on psychology theory of aggression and put forward five suggestions on practical case. I hope this paper can play an inspired role on children's aggressive behavior research.

What is Aggression?

Social psychologists defined “Aggression” as an intentional behavior to cause physical or mental suffering of others. We put the

Bandura is referred to as "one of the founders of social learning theory psychological school”. He made a very famous and influential experiment in the field of psychology. The experiment explains how children acquire attack behavior. The basic process is that make an adult attack a plastic inflatable doll "Bobo" (after being knocked down and bounce again).The man hit with the hand slap, kicked, hit, and abuse. After the children observation, we allow children to play with the doll. In these experiments, the child who had observed adult’s aggression will imitate aggressive behavior and treat this doll with abusive ways. In the control condition, children who haven’t observation are almost no helpless baby any

When he was a child, his parents often quarrel, especially he had often seen his father scolding and beating his mother. Since his kindergarten, Andy began to humiliate other students, quarrel or fight with others. The violent behaviors are so frequently that his classmates don’t like him and unwilling get along with him. Of course, he doesn’t like to participate in any group activities and hide away from his teachers instead of initiating to contact with them. At home, Andy is rarely communicate with his parents, even he will angry with his relatives or friends who just touch Andy’ s head for expressing their