PERSONALITY
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORIES
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We don’t know if the television viewing led to aggression or whether aggressive children spend more time watching television.
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The results cannot be replicated.
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There were too many variables that could not be controlled.
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The indepenent variable was not fully operationalized.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Studies like Huesmann and Eron’s have the problem of bidirectional ambiguity. This means that … We don’t know if the television viewing led to aggression or whether aggressive children spend more time watching television. The results cannot be replicated.
Detailed explanation-2: -Observational learning is a major component of Bandura’s social learning theory. He also emphasized that four conditions were necessary in any form of observing and modeling behavior: attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation.
Detailed explanation-3: -SLT foundational concepts People learn through observation. Reinforcement and punishment have an indirect effect on behavior and learning. Cognitive factors contribute to whether a behavior is acquired.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is an explanation for why the children in Bandura’s 1961 study did not imitate the behaviour of the female model when she was bashing the Bobo? She reminded them of their mothers. The women only engaged in verbal aggression and most of the children were too young to understand.