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Describe and evaluate two social psychological theories into aggression.
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Q: Describe and evaluate two social psychological theories into aggression. A: Aggression is an emotive term that is very much part of our everyday difficult word to define precisely because of the various ways the word is used in everyday language. Berkowitz (1989) and Bandura (1965) said that aggressive behaviour of nonhuman animals can be explained in terms of instinctual drives, aggression in humans is the product of learning. Banduras social learning theory said that that we learnt through direct experience (classical conditioning + operant conditioning) this predicted the likelihood of someone behaving aggressively in a particular situation by their previous experience of aggressive behaviour (their own + others), how successful their aggressive behaviour was in the past and the current likelihood of their behaviour being rewarded or punished. Bandura et al. (1963) did an experiment into children learning aggression. He divided up 66 nursery school children into three...
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