... serves as a guide for action." (Bandura, 1977, p.22). Social learning theory explains human behavior in terms of continuous reciprocal interaction between cognitive, behavioral, an environmental influences. The component processes underlying observational learning are: Attention, Retention, Motor Reproduction, and Reinforcements. In Attention, individuals cannot learn much by observation unless they retain and then act out significant features of the ... modeled behavior. For example, children must attend to what the aggressor is doing and saying in order to reproduce the model's behavi...

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... not over-fitting (while simultaneously ensuring that we were building a strong model and not leaving important variables out). To protect against this, we settled on using the AIC forward stepwise method to build our model. We started the process with a variable that measures if a school's population was significantly socioeconomically disadvantaged, and continued adding our potential variables until AIC, AICc, and BIC ... to report them. We could strengthen our model by focusing on more objective and accurate metrics. Additionally, in further analyses, it would be interesting to incorp...

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