bandura

• social learning theory- 1961: what did Bandura believe?


  that people learn by watching the behaviour of others.
• bandura believed that violence and aggression are produced by:

  - an arousal event (provocation)

  - learned aggressive skills

  - expected success and rewards

  - pro-violence values
• key beliefs of learning theories:

  - criminal behaviour is learned behaviour

  - we are influenced by our immediate social environment- family and friends
• what were the three models in the Bobo Doll experiment (1963)?

  aggressive, non- aggressive and control group (no model at all)
• what was the Bobo Doll experiment?

  children were shown a video of someone either being violent to a bobo doll or not being violent, the children were then left in room alone with toys and a bobo doll and were watched to see how they treated the bobo doll.
• what did the experiment show?

  children became aggressive when exposed to aggression.
• observational learning is thought to take place in primarily 3 contexts, what are they?

  - in the family

  - in the prevalent sub-cultures eg. peers

  - through cultural symbols such as TV and books
• Robert Thomson and John Venables did what after apparently watching Childs Play 3?


  they were ten year olds who murdered James Bulgar.