Made a presentation during my Social Psychology class and thought it very interesting that as the only African student in the class, the topic of Aggression appealed to me.

1. Aggression
Behaviourist approach
Sylvia Matovu

2. Social Learning theory of
Aggression (Bandura)
Aggression learned through
1. Imitation / environmental reinforcement
2. Modelling
3. Vicarious reinforcement

3. Classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov (1849 – 1946)
Sound of bell became associated with meal
time in Pavlov’s dogs.

4. Drivers of Aggressive behaviour
• Family
• Community/ society
• Peers
• Media

5. Operant conditioning

6. Imitation

7. Bibliography
• Fraser, C., & Burchell, B. (2001). Introducing Social
Psychology. London: Polity Press.
• Hogg, M. A., & Vaughan, G. M. (2008). Social
Psychology. 5th ed. Essex: Pearson Education Limited.
• Malim, T., & Birch, A. (1989). Social Psychology.
London: The Macmillan Press Limited.
• Mummendey, A., & Otten, S. (2001). Agressive
beheviour. In M. Hewstone, & W. Stroebe, Introduction
to Social Psychology (pp. 317 - 323). USA: Blackwell
Publishing.
• Pennington, D. (1986). Essential Social Psychology.
London: Edward Arnold.

8. Thank you