| HollyGamer said: games or not or what ever the media is, people easy to influenced by their surrounding like friends, neighborhood and mostly family. So Video games is one of them, even if a person playing non violent games in violent society or family, the person will still influenced by the closest factor which is family. |
Family is the first unit of socialization, definitely; but the media definitely has a large hand as well. According to Albert Bandura's social learning theory, people learn through observing, imitating, and modeling. He conducted his famous bobo doll experiment (which measured a child's behavior after watching an adult act aggressively towards a bobo doll and either get rewarded/punished/no consequence. In this instance, they were likely to exhibit aggressive behavior like the adult had. One could argue that, according to the social learning theory, children might imitate what they see in a violent video game.
Of course Bandura's experiment still had plenty of criticism, as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobo_doll_experiment#Results
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