Any individual no matter what genes or heredity they might have, who are exposed in a severe difficult, violent and abusive environment at a young age will more likely to develop and grow up being aggressive and violent compared to children who are not ,which links this to the next nurture argument : Social Learning. “In psychological theory ,Social Learning is a learning behaviour that is learned observationally through modeling : from observing others. (Bandura, 1986).This experiment by Albert Bandura suggests that an individual aggressive behaviour can be learned from observing aggressive role models or from mimicking what an individual sees in their environment while growing up. (McLeod, 2011).It gives an insight on how we can learn new things and acquire new behaviors and attitude just by observing other people’s action. For example a child who has seen a violent act in the television portrayed by the media will likely copy the action seen from the role model and not being punished or reprimanded for their display of violence and aggression can result into carrying this behaviour to adulthood. This suggests the idea that the more an individual sees violence, while growing up, the more they are likely to become violent person
Any individual no matter what genes or heredity they might have, who are exposed in a severe difficult, violent and abusive environment at a young age will more likely to develop and grow up being aggressive and violent compared to children who are not ,which links this to the next nurture argument : Social Learning. “In psychological theory ,Social Learning is a learning behaviour that is learned observationally through modeling : from observing others. (Bandura, 1986).This experiment by Albert Bandura suggests that an individual aggressive behaviour can be learned from observing aggressive role models or from mimicking what an individual sees in their environment while growing up. (McLeod, 2011).It gives an insight on how we can learn new things and acquire new behaviors and attitude just by observing other people’s action. For example a child who has seen a violent act in the television portrayed by the media will likely copy the action seen from the role model and not being punished or reprimanded for their display of violence and aggression can result into carrying this behaviour to adulthood. This suggests the idea that the more an individual sees violence, while growing up, the more they are likely to become violent person