According to Bandura (1977), “The social learning theory suggests that people learn from the people around them, including criminal behavior in both social and nonsocial situations through combinations of direct reinforcement, explicit instruction, and observation”(p. 12). Social learning theory explains how behavior, including violence, is learned through imitation or modeling. With the idea of providing and promoting higher educational information and motivation to the teenagers in the YMCA program, one goal is for those attending this university tour is to want to imitate and realize the positives of attending a higher education institution. Those giving the tour should represent individuals engaging in the particular behavior of attending college, so that the teenagers can directly observe and interact with those who are currently or in the future going to be rewarded for their hard work in earning a degree in a specific field of
According to Bandura (1977), “The social learning theory suggests that people learn from the people around them, including criminal behavior in both social and nonsocial situations through combinations of direct reinforcement, explicit instruction, and observation”(p. 12). Social learning theory explains how behavior, including violence, is learned through imitation or modeling. With the idea of providing and promoting higher educational information and motivation to the teenagers in the YMCA program, one goal is for those attending this university tour is to want to imitate and realize the positives of attending a higher education institution. Those giving the tour should represent individuals engaging in the particular behavior of attending college, so that the teenagers can directly observe and interact with those who are currently or in the future going to be rewarded for their hard work in earning a degree in a specific field of