The social cognitive theory essentially views that the knowledge acquisition process that happened to all individuals is heavily influenced by the interaction that those individuals made with their environment.
They backed their theory with the results in cognitive psychology and social psychology which infers that every observation that we made since childhood (especially toward close family members) will gradually create blocks of knowledge in our brain that influence the way we view everything around us.
seeing as from that time period Hussein held virtually unlimited power it would be almost like a Tsardom (like russia pre-USSR, which everyone agrees was an autocracy. hope this helps
