Psychology class: Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown

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• Aggression

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Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown

• The article mentions overcrowding in prisons. Outline situational explanations for institutional aggression

• The article describes a situation involving over 200 prison workers being taken hostage by prisoners. Using your knowledge of dispositional explanations for institutional aggression, suggest why Ecuador might be seeing high levels of violence in prisons

• Outline Bandura’s classic research on the social learning of aggression

• Using examples from the article, discuss social learning theory as an explanation for aggression

Danny Galbraith, St Bartholomew’s School