Compare and Contrast

School bullying compared and contrasted from the behavioral and social learning perspectives.

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School bullying compared and contrasted from the behavioral and social learning perspectives.

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Abstract

When a bigger, stronger bully physically harasses and intimidates a more minor, weaker victim, taking the victim's lunch money is typical. Additionally, if the victim gets bullied for an extended period, the victim may have developed a conditioned reaction.

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While behaviorists acknowledge the importance of genes in shaping behavior, they emphasize environmental variables. According to the widely accepted Social Learning Theory, bullying develops due to social conditioning. This paper will evaluate School bullying compared and contrasted from the behavioral and social learning perspectives.

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Comparisons

According to behaviorists Punishing the bully and ensuring that such conduct does not occur again would seem like the logical answer to the vice. However, it would be good if the remedy were as easy as that. Positive reinforcement (e.g., money to purchase extra food at lunch or recognition from peers) may exceed the penalty for the bully who engages in the conduct (Williams, 2017).

Advocates of Social Learning believe that children learn to be aggressive through imitating violent role models, a theory backed up by a large amount of scientific evidence (Williams, 2017). It implies that parents who use physical punishment or verbal abuse to "manage" their children unintentionally teach them how to bully others (O'Hara et al., 2017). Secondary influences include elder siblings, media violence, friends, and school professors.

Conclusion

According to the findings of this research, children with a history of domestic verbal violence got shown to have better rates of delinquency and interpersonal aggressiveness. It got discovered that a lot of evidence supports the idea that bullying gets spawned by it, and few topics in psychology are as universally agreed upon as this one. Researchers showed that this association remains true even for verbal aggression.

References

O'Hara, K. L., Duchschere, J. E., Beck, C. J., & Lawrence, E. (2017). Adolescent-to-parent violence: Translating research into effective practice. Adolescent Research Review, 2(3), 181-198.4

Williams, B. W. (2017). Preschoolers' Aggressive Behavior toward Others Is It Child-play? Is It Bullying?