A child who often sees another child ruling over those around him by using aggression to get what he wants will learn that this method is affective. This child will in turn begin to act in this way to get what they want. However, according to Feldman (2008, pg. 277), “A good deal of research suggest that exposure to aggressive models leads to increased aggression, particularly in the observers are themselves angered, insulted, or frustrated.” This means if the child observes an aggressive act while they themselves are upset they are then more likely to act out in an aggressive way. This is the reason behind children who witness horrible acts of violence often grow up to commit the same type of …show more content…
Through the use of surveys researchers have been able to determine that there is in fact a noticeable difference in a male’s level of physical aggression in comparison to the aggression levels of females (Baillargeon, Zoccolillo, Keenan, Hong-Xing, Côté, Pérusse, Boivin, & Tremblay, 2007). However, even with this difference between the genders the researchers found that there is not a large difference in the magnitudes of aggression between males and females. This means those children that reach the peak of physical aggression differ only slightly between the genders