According to social cognitive theory, an individual's knowledge acquisition is related to his observations and outside media influences. This is an advance version of the Social Learning Theory.
This theory states that when people;e observe others performing a behavior, they remember it and try to copy it in his future behaviors. According to this the survival of humanity is based on the replication of other's behaviors.
Similarly, Children who are exposed to violent TV programming are the ones who try to replicate those violent acts seen on TV.
