AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -If the role model’s behaviour is seen to be rewarded, then a child can learn that this is an effective way of getting what they want. Through this process of vicarious reinforcement, rewards that are witnessed as a result of aggression result in the behaviour being seen as acceptable and then reproduced.

Detailed explanation-2: -An important concept in social learning theory, vicarious reinforcement often leads to imitation: for example, a student who hears the teacher praise a classmate for neat penmanship on an assignment and who then carefully handwrites his or her own assignment is considered to have received vicarious reinforcement.

Detailed explanation-3: -Imitative aggression, or the imitation of aggres-sive behaviors modeled by another, serves an important developmental process. Specifically, imitative aggression may function to use others as models for appropriate behaviors in specific environments or circumstances.

Detailed explanation-4: -The social learning theory of aggression explains how aggressive patterns develop, what provokes people to behave aggressively, and what sustains such actions after they have been initiated. The value of particular aggressive acts derives from social labeling.