How does imitation play a part in explaining violent acts committed by young children (children under 13 years of age)?
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Look at the Bandura experiment.
This is based off of the work of Albert Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment. I will post a rather simplistic explanation of it, but more information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_doll_experiment
In Bandura’s experiment, various groups of children watched a tape of an adult acting in a certain way towards an inflated doll (Bobo). One group watched the adult ignore the doll, one watched the adult act aggressively to the doll and the other watched the adult act nicely towards the doll.
Bandura found that the children exposed to the aggressive model were more likely to act in physically aggressive ways than those who were not exposed to the aggressive model.
What this suggests is that children will imitate the behaviour they see around them.
Does a child even learn violence is wrong if a trusted adult is showing them that it’s not. Children learn by our actions first and our words second. I think they look up to and admire either a good or a bad parent. They are our students and learn most of what they know by us whether we or they realize it. Once something is learn ed, it is most difficult to unlearn. Some children grow to be adults still believing their parents tought them the right way. After all, for years they believed Mom and Dad knew everything.