... where a child sees a role model behaving in a particular way and imitates the behaviour of the model. This was shown in Bandura's experiment where children watched the behaviour of an adult towards a Bobo doll. He found that each of instances below increases the likelihood that the observing child will imitate the aggressive behaviour of the model. Children observe aggressive behaviour Model is rewarded for aggressive behaviour Other adults show approval of model's aggressive behaviour Other children imitate behaviour of model Social learning theories of aggression rely heavily on experimental evidence and field studies of observational learning. There are however, some methodological problems in Bandura's study. Joseph said that the experiment only involves harm to an inflatable doll not a human being, therefore it is not a good example of aggression. Johnston found that children who behaved violently towards the doll were rated as more violent generally by teachers. Aggression is often described ...

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