Social learning theory

• Social learning theory says experience explains aggressive behaviour
• Social learning theory of human aggression says the aggressive behaviour is learned
• People learn aggression from observing and imitating aggressive models
• Reinforcement affects how likely we are to imitate observed behaviour
• Bandura got children to watch a video of a model behaving aggressively to a bobo doll

  Model was rewarded, punished or neither

  Children who saw model rewarded or neither behaved more aggressively