RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

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aggressive energy and, in return, this motivates behaviour which injures the person against whom it is directed. It is assumed that the infliction of injury lessens - aggressive energy. Some authors point out that experience and learning influence the manifestation of aggressive behaviour, i.e. that they either weaken ог strengthen it. This theory urges that the basic requisite for aggression is previous frustration. Whether scenes of violence on television will act on the viewer depends on whether he was frustrated ог not before watching these scenes. If he was previously frustrated he will retain them better in his тетогу ог will subsequently even behave тоге aggressively. Several studies of this problem have been made and the results are contradictory. THE THEORY OF LEARNING A third concept of aggressive behaviour is that it is exclusively a product of the environment and that it is acquired by learning. The most outstanding representative of this way of thinking is Albert Bandura, according to whom man is moulded and changed, and even acquires aggressive behaviour as the result of learning. He cites that it is not by chance that the word for »learn« in тапу languages is the same as the word for »show«. Bandura stresses the importance for the development of aggression of learning ffom a model, by which a person, imitating certain people, ог models, acquires new forms of behaviour. It is possible, in Bandura's opinion, for a person to сору general tactics, to acquire certain attitudes and value systems, apart from attaining new behaviour pattems, through observing the behaviour of models. Bandura considers learning from a model very important for a person’s development, for without it he would not have тапу of the forms of behaviour which he possesses and frequently would not live to maturity. A person does not imitate all behaviour which