1. Check your understanding
Review of SLT
Check your understanding

2. Task
Decide if the acts are aggressive or not.

3. Definition of aggression
Behaviour intended to harm or injure which is directed towards another living being. This can include physical and psychological injury.

4. Task Read the notes on SLT.
Correct the mistakes in the text on page 7.

5. Task
Read the study that supports Bandura’s SLT and fill in the gaps.

6. SLT and debates
What are the debates you looked at last term?

7. Nature Nurture
Free will Determinism
Reductionist Holistic

8. SLT and determinism
Takes moderate position on debate – allows somewhat for free will as cognition plays role in aggression but environment also plays part in determining aggression – known as reciprocal determinism

9. SLT and reductionism
Less simplistic than biological and evolutionary theories as attempts to account for biological, environmental and cognitive influences on aggressive behaviour but does not fully explain role of biology in causing aggression (Flanagan, 2000)

10. SLT and nature vs. nurture
Bandura’s SLT assumes we’re born with biological potential to be aggressive but we learn how to express aggression through observation of role models

11. SLT and Psychology as a Science
Bandura’s research used scientific methodology (lab experiment), so can determine that manipulation of observation of reward/punishment for aggression caused level of aggression – study has been replicated many times as standardised procedure therefore possible to establish reliability

12. Task
Choose one debate and write your own evidenced and elaborated evaluation paragraph.

13. Review of issues in psychological researchM A
G –Boys’ increased aggression could reflect the fact that the role model observed was of the same sex or could be due to differences in willingness to exhibit aggressive responses, rather than deficits in learning or "masculine- role identification“ (although more recent studies by Anderson et al (2007) didn’t find as much of a gender effect as in Bandura – could this be a result of changing social roles of men and women over the last 50 years?) E C