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On a school day, Arthur was going to his locker and he heard laughing and stuff that was being thrown at a trash can. He saw some football players and hoped that they wouldn’t notice him while he was getting closer, but as he got near his locker he saw someone in the trash can and then made a distraction so he could help the kid get out. After that, he had to go to the principal’s office and tell them what happened. As the principal was talking to him, he got yelled at to stay away from the kid he saved. Then he and the kid became friends and didn’t tell the

Someone brought up in class that some individuals are “born bad” and no matter what environment they are raised in they will be deviant. The “bad” nature of these individuals outweighs any positive nurture. Personally, I don’t like the phrase “born bad”, but I strongly agree that some individuals are born with traits that would make them more prone to committing crime. Individuals will continue to be born with poor self-control and attraction to violence unless we start a eugenic movement, which is not okay. The whole “born bad” discussion was brought up when we were discussing Social Learning Theory. In this theory it is concluded that criminal activity is learned, that nobody is born knowing how to properly smoke marijuana or any other criminal

As Akhbar () stated, the more violence we are exposed to, the more violent we become and the more evil we observe, the more evil we become. When the social-cognitive learning theory is influenced by the words and behaviors of violent models, it becomes essential that people start to carefully select the kinds of experiences and people in which they expose themselves and their children to ().

A perfect example of the nurture theory is the affluenza teen. The affluenza teen is a sixteen year old who killed three people because he was driving drunk. He thinks that since he’s rich he shouldn’t have any repercussion for his actions. He grow up not having to worry about money and being treated better than kids with less wealth are treated. There’s something obviously wrong with this kid. How would money change your actions for murdering another human being? Studies show that money is linked to failure, even though everyone sees money as being successful. A study shows that “affluent children are more vulnerable to substance abuse issues”. Wealthy kids typically don’t have their parents around. On top of that, their parents have high

Larson in “Serial murderers: The Construction” states that socialization is said to begin after birth. The social learning theory is a theory that uses the childhood of serial offenders to identify the main reasons for causation. The social learning theory examines the offender’s past for clues in explaining aggressive behavior. The central idea of this theory is the relation of childhood victimization or observation of violent acts to future activities in criminal behavior. According to Hickey, stress caused by childhood traumatization may be a trigger to criminal behavior in adulthood. It

Gerbner wants to discover the cultivation differential. He called it “the difference in the percent giving the ‘television answer’ within comparable groups of light and heavy viewers.” His survey targeted the four attitudes. The first one is Chances of involvement with violence. People with light viewing habits predict that their weekly odds of being a victim is 1 out of 100; those people with heavy viewing habits feared to be 1 out of 10. Data of actual crime says 1 out of 10,000 is more realistic. Of course, the prediction of the people with heavy viewing habits is because of their eagerness to justify physical aggression. Children who often watch television agreed that “it is almost right [to hit someone] if you are mad at them for a good

There are three main components of this theory: attention, retention, and motivation. A child is exposed to a crime, an act of violence, or some sort of injustice; this is the attention portion of the theory. Viewing these acts expands their behavioral options and discover the consequence or reward for such actions. In the retention portion of this theory, the learned images that a child has viewed is internalized. The cognitive function of memory enables us to reenact that vivid image of violence. The theory suggests we can live vicariously through these images; we may never reenact them in reality, but we have been exposed to them.) This constant exposure and mental reenactment of violence lead to desensitization to these injustices because they are familiar. In the motivation portion of the theory we calculate how imitating these violent acts would pan out in reality. The viewer weighs the rewards or punishments of these actions. Motivation comes from the expectation of future reward or punishment; both internal and external rewards are played out in the viewer’s mind to

Social learning theory suggests that the mechanism underlying the continuity of violence is observational learning in which children who were abused learn to repeat abusive or neglectful modeled behavior (Begle, Dumas & Hanson, 2010). Observational learning, in the case of child

The first reason why the nurture side of the debate provides more evidence towards understanding violent behavior is due to the fact that children learn violence through parents and other adults in their life. The first way children learn is that they imitate behavior that they

Violence take multiple forms, many of which are covered in the nightly news. Murder, rape, familial abuse, bullying, workplace hostility, armed robbery—all of these are societal problems with far-reaching repercussions. There have long debates and discussions regarding whether nature or nurture influences individual violent behavior. People are concerned about what makes an individual to engage in violent behavior such murder or burglary among other types of crimes. They are also concerned about what makes people stop such behavior. However, there is no precise conception whether nature, nurture or both influence violence. Some people assume that, violent behavior results from individual’s life experiences or upbringing also known as nurture. Others feel that violent behavior is more complex and results from individual’s genetic character or nature. In other words, it is not clear whether violent behavior is inborn or occurs at some point in persons’ lives, but even it’s hard, emphasizing one and ignoring other influences is always an unwise way to go.

N.O was playing with a bell and a block at the same time. Near the garbage can. The teacher told him you can only play with one toy at a time. He got upset, kicked the garbage can and threw himself to the floor. N.O started screaming so loud that a child said, “you are hearting my ears” N.O said, “I don’t like that” and got up from the floor and he went to hit another child for no reason. The other child told him “I don’t like that”. N.O. started to cry more and kicked the shelves. The teacher told him “we don’t hit our friends” “we keep our hand to our self”. She also told him “go to the writing center” where he sat down. And calmed him down. The teacher went and sat next to him. The child started acting like a monkey and then he started coloring.

These results correlate highly with the social learning theory on aggressive behavior. Those exposed to substantial violence and aggression were likely to imitate it later on in life. However, while an observational study can elicit enlightening results, they do not provide much on practical, empirical evidence. What the researchers did was observe behavior exhibited by the individuals they studied; they did not control the amount of violence the individuals were being exposed nor were they preventing others from being exposed to such programming. Thus, this study can not be deemed as an “experiment”. While they tried eliminating the lurking variables that may plague the results of their findings, it would be impossible to eliminate every possible influence other than the television exposure through an observational study.

Thursday, September 6th, a little girl ”M“ comes to daycare in the morning a little bit late, at 10:15am. When she arrived her classmates were about to have a snack and she was very excited to see everybody. “M” gave her teacher a hug with her two arms. Then she turns to her mom and says: “Bye, Mommy!” and ran to the classroom. “M” was trying to grab the chair with her left hand to sit down and have a snack with her friends. 3 boys and 2 girls were sitting at the same round table. After trying twice to get a chair, she decided to use both hands to pull the chair out. “M” walked around the chair, bent down her knees and pulled the chair under her as she sat. She slowly sat down in the

Learning theorists may want celebrities to play a good role model, may oppose violence in video games or television, or may want to focus on the role of families and parenthood is providing an environment that is conducive to good behavior. Policymakers that believe in the strength of the learning theories may still find the need to impose punishment (punishers) however, they may also aspire to rehabilitate the juvenile and administer treatments and programs that will help the juvenile in learning good behavior.

Therefore, if parents act like stuck-up, uptight individuals all their lives, and treat other people with little dignity or respect, a child, would learn to do much of the same thing. Children learn by observing and imitating. Transference can become a way of life before therapy. This is a social learning theory. There is also a lot of argument about how a human 's innate drives and behavior affect humans. It may be safe to say that there is such a belief that it is these innate drives, which underlie the motivation of human behavior. Corey, (2013).