What is the social learning theory of aggression? How did Bandura's "Bobo Doll" experiments demonstrate that aggressive behavior could be learned?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The theory states that aggressive behavior is caused by rewards for punishments, which may be either direct or indirect. The Bobo Doll experiments demonstrated that children were more likely to imitate an aggressive person's violent behavior toward an inflatable doll if that person was rewarded for aggression, but not if punishment ensued instead.

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b. Immigration Act of 1917
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