Social Learning Theory Albert Bandura

Today I will share with you all about the theory of social learning theory of Albert Bandura ..... I get of several books that discuss the psychological theory. The formulation of what I get is:


Humans are always looking for an easy and fun to do something in life. Sometimes it is easier to learn something of what made the by seeing imitating. One of the initial studies look at this matter was conducted by Bandura (1965 and 1973). He want to know what children can learn aggressive behavior by only to see others behaving aggressively.

In these studies, Bandura (1973) collects some boys and girls, and show films that have
aggressive behavior. Children are divided into three groups separately. The first group to see the action of individuals who behave aggressively and after behaving so, he is rewarded. The second group also saw the recording action of individuals who behave aggressively, but this individual
then punished for his actions. The third group only saw recordings aggressive acts without seeing the actress rewards or punishments.

The results of the study, he found all the children imitate the behavior aggressive behavior, but the frequency of aggressive behavior by the two fewer than the group one and three. But when they behave aggressively and then was rewarded for such behavior, Bandura (1973) found that the frequency of all groups increased with the higher rate.

In conclusion, why do we have to imitate to learn something behavior can be divided into three areas namely;

1. By the way we imitate the example of how such behavior can implemented in reality. We do not need to imagine how it should be done.

2. Is the closest to imitating the way we learn. A behavior will be easier to learn the ropes by watching examples of how it should be read directions specified in the manuals.

3. By imitating the observations, we avoid failure may arise as a result of the trial and error. We know and can see where the error occurred and this can be avoided with immediate effect.

The imitation (modeling) is a behavior modification techniques involves observations of the behavior of another person, called the model and imitate the act. Bandura (1973) did not deny the importance of aspects reinforcement to influence behavior, but he did not agree if behavior can be learned only through direct reinforcement.

Bandura (1973) has been carrying out a study in which some children preschool has shown scenes of an adult who hit the statue named Bobo. Then, when the last child left alone with
earlier sculptures, they have hit the statue as such has been done adults today. Rates shown aggressive behavior is the same, whether viewed directly, watching television or the characters in the film.

In the other study, Bandura (1973) make comparisons between behavior of parents who have children who are aggressive and control children. Bandura theory says that its behavior should be consistent with parental behavior. The study found that parents who have children the control of parents who are not aggressive and can control their behavior, while parents with children who are aggressive from those who are too aggressive.
According to Anderson and Bushman (2002), humans perform a variety of aggression through several episodes. The first episode is receiving aggression and aggression situations. Information and aggression appropriate situation would then be stored in human nature and affect the thinking that then stimulate the instincts to do an aggression.

However, the resulting aggression as a 'put out' after people to assess and evaluate the type of aggression that in line with the thinking and the situation on the appropriate stimulation. The result of this reaction took place social relations either negative or positive.