Futher Strength - Account For Children Learning

Question 1

However, what can SLT account for learning in children?

Answer 1

However, SLT can account for the how children learn from other people around them as well as through the media and it can explain how cultural norms transmitted. This has proved useful in understanding a range of behaviours such as how children come to understand gender roles and why some individuals become criminal.

Question 2

What does the theory explain that biological explanations cannot. And what is an example?

Answer 2

The theory is explaining cultural differences in behaviour that biological explanations cannot. For example, the kung san tribe of the kalarian desert are seen to have extremely low levels of aggression among their people.

Question 3

How can social learning theory explain the low levels aggression?

Answer 3

Social learning can explain this through their child-rearing practices as they have been observed to not reinforce any aggressive behaviours in children.

Question 4

What is also frowned upon in the kung san tribe culture?

Answer 4

Also, aggression is frowned upon in the culture and with an absence of any role model for people to learn it, this may explain the low levels of aggression which is in line with social learning theory predictions.