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Classroom bullying can be attributed to modeling and vicarious learning. Furthermore, bullying behavior may be a result of learned behavior and inability to conflict resolute their own personal feelings of inadequacy and/or have little conflict mediation skills.

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Discussion of classroom bullying and how bullying behavior can be a result of role-models using Bandura's theory.

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Bandura's Social Learning theory emphasizes that children learn their behaviors and responses from observing the behaviors of others around them. Most prominent influences or role modelers are adults in their lives such as parents, older siblings and other authority figures in their lives. For instance, the behavior of smoking. Often, children of smokers will likely pick up smoking earlier on in their lives as compared to non-smoking families. They are likely to think that this is normal behavior and wish to imitate it . Based on this theory, smoking has been greatly restricted in movies ...

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