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Social Learning Theory On Teenage Drinking

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An article was published on BBC News giving a detailed insight into teenage drinking and how parents can influence teens to drink at such a young age. The article stated that children who see their parents drunk are twice as likely to get drunk themselves on a regular basis (Hughes,2011). Social learning theory looks at how learning and social behaviour can be learnt by observing and copying. Bandura believed that human behaviour is learned through the interaction and observation of others (Bandura, 1977). The article writer Hughes also mentions how poor parental supervision raises the likelihood of teenage drinking. Moreover, if a teenager is not punished for the behaviour of drinking due to poor supervision of a parent they will immediately
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