Observational Learning Help Children Learn How to Behave

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As children, we depend on the world to show us how we should behave. We observe the world to see how we should act and when it is the proper time to act a certain way. In psychology this is called observational learning. Observational learning starts when infants began to imitating their parent’s behaviors. It is often found that children’s behavior (expression of emotion) results from observing their parents. In most cases, adults have the same behavior as they did when they were younger. In other cases, adult behavior change’s depending on their surroundings. However, our experience from observing the world can have different effects, because not everyone is the same. In contrast, human expression of emotion can vary. Therefore, human emotions are the most difficult subject to understand. Attempting to study emotions is hard because human’s emotion range from high to low in several categories like frustration, aggression, excitement, depression, fear, sadness, and joy.
Nevertheless, a particular emotional response is not caused by one thing. Every emotional response is cause by more than one thing. It was once thought crying was only an emotional response from being sad. However that is not always the situation. An emotion response like crying could be an emotional response from frustration, anger, or happiness. In order to understand human behavior, all aspects (observing parent interactions) that cause humans to response emotionally must be studied. Because understanding human emotion is like a common ground to understand human behavior. Without exploring every emotional response human express, we will never fully understand human behavior. We would be ignorant to other emotional responses like laughter. Laugh...

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...t laughter is an emotional response to more things than we think.
Gender Differences
Furthermore, there are gender difference in expressing emotion (laughter).
Children (boys and girls) replicating parent(s) interactions
Social Gatherings
Adult Behavior
According to “The Effect of Gender of Canned Laughter on Television Programme Appreciation” by Adrian Furnham, Ella Hutson, Alastaire McCllenad

Reference
According to “Aping Expressions? Chimpanzees Produce Distinct Laugh Types When Responding to Laughter of Others” by Marina Davila-Ross, Bethan Allcock, Chris Thomas, and Kim A. Bard
According to “The Effect of Gender of Canned Laughter on Television Programme Appreciation” by Adrian Furnham, Ella Hutson, Alastaire McCllenad
In “Psychological Distance and Emotional Experience: What You See Is What You Get” by Joshua I. Davis, James J. Gross and Kevin N. Ochsner;

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