Originally hypothesized by Albert Bandura, it demonstrates the effects of how easily a child's mind can be molded based on what that child observes. ... Through these interactions, individuals observe the way others act and model their own behaviors through what they see. ... Bandura's social learning experiment involved young children watching adults either beat or play "nicely" with a Bobo Doll. ... To demonstrate, they found that the correlation between social learning variables and smoking is somewhat low. This may be a cause of the fact that smoking is not as deviant a...

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Or do we merely accept that because the government is a democratically elected body, that it has legitimacy, and therefore a right to do what is otherwise illegal? ... The term 'capital punishment' is derived from the Latin caput, meaning 'head'. ... On 16 February 2003 the Australian PM said in a Sunday morning television interview that the Bali bombers "should be dealt with in accordance with Indonesian law. and if [the death penalty] is what the law of Indonesia provides, well, that is how things should proceed. ... ,and Walker,J.R 1992) What, then, are the rational...

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