Question

After viewing Bandura's original video from his 1961 study above, complete the following for this discussion:

• Explain the basic concepts demonstrated in this study in regard to observational learning.
• Based on the video and your reading, do you believe that violence in television, media, or video games likely promote violent behaviors according to the principles of observational learning? Please share your thoughts and examples.
• Additionally, discuss your own real-life example of the concept of observational learning by sharing an incident either witnessed personally or through the media.
• Discuss how observational learning differs from theories of learning that emphasize “conditioning” (classical conditioning and operant conditioning). Use the example of how aggressive behavior may result from conditioning.

Be sure to provide the URL link(s) and/or title(s) to any resource used as reference in your post.

Answer 1

Observation learning is the learning that occurs through observation of other's behaviour.

There are four basic concepts of observation learning-

Attention- first it is important to focus and attend what is happening around in the world.

Retension/ memory- then it is necessary to remember what was observed.

Imitation- it is the ability to reproduce the same observed act or behaviour.

Motivation- observer only learn any behaviour if they are motivated to do so.

Yes, I believe that violence in television, media, and videogames play important role to promote violent behaviour. Children are very much vulnerable to learn aggression by observing others. Many researches showed and we also observed that level of aggression correlated with spending time in watching aggression on media, television, or videogames.

As I experienced this learning of violence when I was young kid, I used to spend a lot of time playing violent videogames. It impacted me a lot, I used to imagine violence like if somebody says to me anything I will hit on that person's face, I will scream etc. And then this turned into aggression. I usually jumped into fights. This behaviour was observed by my mother and she took my videogame and with time my anger and aggression decreased with time.

Observation learning emphasis on the learning through observation but conditioning theory explains learning occur through process of association between stimulus and stimulus (classical conditioning) or stimulus and response ( operant conditioning).