Albert Bandura's Theory Of Social Influences On Children

In the world where we live in social influence plays a huge role. As humans we learn things from various resources such as society, observation, television role models and also imitating others the idea of this theory was as humans we pick up things from our interactions with others and we learn this from our environment “ A persisting change in human performance or performance potential as a result of the learner’s interaction with the environment” (Driscoll, 1994, pp. 8-9). in the present society, there are many interests on how social influences can effect on children and their and morality. The main concept of learning behavior is through environment. (Hoffman, 1993) Albert Bandura came up one of the most significant theories of learning and development which is studied as the ‘social learning theory (1971). “Most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action” (Bandura, 1977).
When observing the behavior of other people people tend to comprehend and imitate that behavior, especially in cases where people experience positive observational experinces or if it includes rrewards to their. (Razieh Tadayon Nabavi jan 2012)
There was very limited and less imitative aggression among the subjects who had observed aggressive behavior though the non imitative aggression was small. The girls in the aggressive model appeared to be more physiclally aggressive if the responses of the model was a male although there were more verbal aggressive response if the model was a female. Boys tend to imitate same sex modles when compared to girls. The chance of girls imitating was lesser. (ALBERT BANDURA, DOROTHEA ROSS, AND SHEILA A.