PERSONALITY
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORIES
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Question
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She reminded them of their mothers.
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The women only engaged in verbal aggression and most of the children were too young to understand.
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The children were afraid of her.
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Her behaviour was not seen as consistent with women’s behaviour.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -If the vicarious reinforcement is not seen to be important enough to the observer, then they will not imitate the behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -The experiment revealed that children imitate the aggressive behavior of adults. The findings support Bandura’s social learning theory, which emphasises the influence of observational learning on behavior.
Detailed explanation-4: -The SLT states that we acquire behaviors through a combination of reinforcement and imitation, where “imitation is the reproduction of learning through observation” (Gross, 2020, p. 489).
Detailed explanation-5: -So Albert Bandura’s theory is called Social Cognitive Theory. The encompassing idea behind it is that children learn by observing the people around them, by being modeled to, and by imitating that modeling.