<P> For social learning theory, gender development has to do with the interactions of numerous social factors, involving all the interactions the individual encounters . For social learning theory, biological factors are important but take a back seat to the importance of learned, observable behavior . Because of the highly gendered society in which an individual might develop, individuals begin to distinguish people by gender even as infants . Bandura's account of gender allows for more than cognitive factors in predicting gendered behavior: for Bandura, motivational factors and a broad network of social influences determine if, when, and where gender knowledge is expressed . </P> <P> Social Learning theory proposes that rewards aren't the sole force behind creating motivation . Thoughts, beliefs, morals, and feedback all help to motivate us . Three other ways in which we learn are vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological states . Modeling, or the scenario in which we see someone's behaviors and adopt them as our own, aide the learning process as well as mental states and the cognitive process. (citation? more description) </P> <P> Principles of social learning theory have been applied extensively to the study of media violence . Akers and Burgess hypothesized that observed or experienced positive rewards and lack of punishment for aggressive behaviors reinforces aggression . Many research studies have discovered significant correlations between viewing violent television and aggression later in life and many have not, as well as playing violent video games and aggressive behaviors . The role of observational learning has also been cited as an important factor in the rise of rating systems for TV, movies, and video games . </P> <P> Entertainment - education in the form of a telenovela or soap opera can help viewers learn socially desired behaviors in a positive way from models portrayed in these programs . The telenovela format allows the creators to incorporate elements that can bring a desired response . These elements may include music, actors, melodrama, props or costumes . Entertainment education is symbolic modeling and has a formula with three sets of characters with the cultural value that is to be examined is determined ahead of time: </P>

Briefly explain what social learning theorists mean by modelling in relation to gender development