Bandura Flashcards
What is the name of the theory?
Bandura’s social learning theory.
What type of theory is it?
Individualistic
Crime is a what?
Learnt behaviour
Where is behaviour learnt from?
Role models such as family or peers
What are the stages of committing the crime?
Observe and imitate (reproduce)
When is someone more likely to imitate?
If they didn’t observe a negative sanction
What was the name of the study?
The bobo doll experiment
What happened in the study?
Children observed strangers being violent towards the doll and then were left alone with the doll.
What did the children do?
The majority imitated the violence they had observed
What is the cause?
Observing and imitating criminal behaviour
What is the strength of this theory?
The theory was proven by the Bobo doll experiment as the children imitated what they observed.
Why is the strength effective?
Because the experiment showed observing violence has an impact on children and they’re influenced (especially if they haven’t seen the doll before), shows cause and effect
What are the weaknesses of the theory?
The experiment involved observing strangers, rather than family or peers like the theory states.
It doesn’t explain why people who haven’t observed crime still commit it.
Unethical to expose children to violence
What is the structure for evaluating effectiveness?
Name of the theory.
What the cause of criminality is.
The strength.
Why the strength is effective.
The weakness.
Why the weakness isn’t effective.
