Explain+social+learning+theory,+making+refernce+to+two+relevant+studies

 __** Explain social learning theory, making refernce to two relevant studies **__.
 * ====__Term__==== || ====__Definition__==== ||
 * ** Norm ** || A set of rules based on socially or culturally shared beliefs of how an individual ought to behave. ||
 * **Social Learning Theory** || Assumption by Albert Bandura that humans learn behaviour through **observational learning.**  ||
 * **Observational Learning** || People can learn by watching models and imitating their behaviour. ||
 * **Vicarious Reinforcement** || People can learn from observing what happens to others; they don’t have to experience the consequences themselves ||

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The Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandura addresses how a society or culture passes on its norms, which are a set of rules based on socially or culturally shared beliefs of how an individual ought to behave, to individuals within the group. The theory assumes that humans learn behaviour through observational learning, such as watching models and imitating their behaviour. According to Bandura, social learning involves attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation. The last factor, motivation, is influenced by various factors, which are the consistency of the behaviour of the model, the identification with the model, rewards or punishments, and liking the model.The Social Learning Theory is commonly applied to the role of violence in the media on aggression in children. For instant, Bandura et. al (1961) wished to see if children would imitate aggression modelled by an adult and if the children were more likely to imitate same gender models. The findings showed that the children which were exposed to the aggressive model were significantly more aggressive in behaviour, where as the children which observed the non-aggressive model were not only less aggressive then the children who were exposed to the aggressive model, but also the control group which did not observe any model. In addition, boys were more likely to imitate physical aggression where as the girls were more likely to imitate verbal aggression. In addition, boys behaved more aggressively than girls. In addition, a study by Yarrow et al. (1970) showed that children learn altruistic behaviour (helping others for no personal gain) better from people whom they have already developed a friendly relationship than from people they do not know.  Both of these studies demonstrated how specific behaviours can be learned through observation and imitation, which is the social learning theory.