Transmitting Aggression Through Imitation

Transmitting Aggression through the Imitation of Aggressive Models Student’s NameDepartment, Institutional AffiliationCourse Code: Course NameInstructor’s NameDue DateTransmitting Aggression through the Imitation of Aggressive Models Aggression in its multiple dimensions is a significant behavioural problem in the world currently. In the history of psychology, aggression stands out as a widely-researched topic, particularly by social psychologists whose primary goal is to define it and study its causes. While there is a long continuum of behaviours that qualify as aggressive, social psychologists pay greater attention to the causes of human aggression, with some theoretical approaches asserting that it is biologically pre-programed. Other theories focus on situational factors such as provocation and repeated frustration while the rest hypothesize that aggression is a learned behaviour. Albert Bandura and colleagues conducted a research study based on social learning theories designed to prove that aggression is imitated through observation of role models. Popularly recognized as the Bobo Doll experiment, the research proves the hypothesis that even in the absence of direct rewards and punishments, simple observation and imitation of behaviour models