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  • Essay / Nonviolent aggression in the film hurting whoever you...

    A psychological theory that involves the "internal" cause of human behavior is social learning theory. In 1977, theorist Albert Bandura “stated that behavior is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning” (McLeod, 2011). In other words, learning is based on observation and modeling. Bandura believed that humans are selective about what they pay attention to and create a relationship between their behavior and consequences. Observational learning can only come from the modeling process which includes four stages: attention, retention, production and motivation. First of all, attention, to learn something, the person must pay attention to a certain situation or observe. Secondly, retention, memory plays an important role in this stage because to fully understand something, a person must be able to retrieve the information they have learned. Third, production is when the person repeats or imitates the behavior shown by their model. Fourth, motivation, for a person to be successful in learning through observation, they must have the desire to learn it. (Fryling, M.,