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Observation Learning Violent Behaviors

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Observation Learning: Violent Behaviors
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OBSERVATION LEARNING: VIOLENT BEHAVIORS 2
The observational learning process has sparked debates regarding its impact on the
development of morality and personality in children. Psychologists have attempted to support
their arguments using evidence gathered from experiments. Albert Bandura, for example,
conducted a Bobo doll experiment in 1961 to investigate the development of aggression in
children through observation. In the experiment, children witnessed an adult kicking, hitting,
shoving, and insulting a doll. As evidenced in the YouTube Video, children adopted the violent
behavior and hostile language used in handling the bobo doll. The experiment enabled Bandura
to effectively prove that children acquire social behaviors like aggression through observation
and imitation of other individuals around them.
Today, the changes in the social environment because of mass media saturation has
created concerns among psychologists, parents, and the general society. Notably, mass media
platforms like computer networks, video games, television, and films take a central position in
people’s lives. Studies have shown that mass media sources have significantly affected people’s
behaviors, beliefs, values (Huesmann& Taylor, 2006). Video games, for example, offer the
audience in an interactive platform that exposes them to modeling, behavioral rehearsals, and
direct reinforcement, simultaneously. Most mass media platforms present violent programs to the
audience for entertainment and education purposes. Psychologists believe that the violence
depicted in the mass media sources have negative impacts on the audience. Specifically,
observational learning principles show that violence featured in mass media sources may
generate detrimental effects on the audience. Observational learning principles prove that video
games, media, and television promote violent behaviors in modern society.
I have been able to associate the observational learning processes with real-life incidents
around me. I have observed that the consumption of media content has transformed behaviors,

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Running head: OBSERVATION LEARNING: VIOLENT BEHAVIORS Observation Learning: Violent Behaviors Student's Name Institutional Affiliation OBSERVATION LEARNING: VIOLENT BEHAVIORS 2 The observational learning process has sparked debates regarding its impact on the development of morality and personality in children. Psychologists have attempted to support their arguments using evidence gathered from experiments. Albert Bandura, for example, conducted a Bobo doll experiment in 1961 to investigate the development of aggression in children through observation. In the experiment, children witnessed an adult kicking, hitting, shoving, and insulting a doll. As evidenced in the YouTube Video, children adopted the violent behavior and hostile language used in handling the bobo doll. The experiment enabled Bandura to effectively prove that children acquire social behaviors like aggression through observation and imitation of other individuals around them. Today, the changes in the social environment because of mass media saturation has created concerns among psychologists, parents, and the general society. Notably, mass media platforms like computer networks, video games, television, and films take a central position in people’s lives. Studies have shown that mass media sources have significantly affected people’s behaviors, beliefs, values (Huesmann& Taylor, 2006). Video games, for example, offer the audience in an interactive platform that exposes them to modeling, behavioral re ...
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