Consider the following statements regarding Albert Bandura's 'Social Learning Theory' and 'Observational Learning' in Child Development and Pedagogy: 1. According to Bandura, learning does not occur solely through directly receiving rewards or punishments (operant conditioning), but a child also learns by observing the behavior of others, their consequences, and the social environment. 2. The process of observational learning consists of four key interrelated stages - Attention, Retention, Reproduction, and Motivation/Reinforcement. 3. In the 'Bobo Doll Experiment', Bandura proved that children genetically and innately learn aggressive behavior automatically, and observational learning of aggressive behavior from adults or models has no effect on them. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

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Statement 1 is correct because according to Albert Bandura's social learning theory, children learn by observing the behavior of others (through modeling). Statement 2 is also correct because Bandura outlined four essential stages of observational learning: attention, retention, reproduction, and motivation. Statement 3 is incorrect because the 'Bobo Doll Experiment' (1961) clearly proved that children learn by observing (modeling) the aggressive behavior of adults; it is not genetically innate but acquired through the social environment and the influence of models. Hence, only statements 1 and 2 are correct.

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