Bobo doll experiment
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"The Bobo doll experiment was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961. In this work, Bandura found that children exposed to an aggressive adult model acted more aggressively than those who were exposed to a nonaggressive adult model. This experiment suggests that anyone who comes in contact with and interacts with children can affect the way they react and handle situations."--Sholem Stein |
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The Bobo doll experiment was the collective name of experiments conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 and 1963 when he studied children's behavior after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a Bobo doll. There are different variations of the experiment. The most notable experiment measured the children's behavior after seeing the model get rewarded, get punished, or experience no consequence for beating up the bobo doll. The experiments are empirical approaches to test Bandura's social learning theory. The social learning theory claims that people learn through observing, imitating, and modeling. It shows that people not only learn by being rewarded or punished (behaviorism), but they can also learn from watching somebody else being rewarded or punished (observational learning). These experiments are important because they sparked many more studies on the effects of observational learning. The studies not only give us new data, but this data has practical implications, e.g. how children can be influenced from watching violent media.
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Aggression, Albert Bandura, Bobo, Criminal psychology, Index of education articles, Influence of mass media, Observational learning, Personality psychology, Research on the effects of violence in mass media, Social cognitive theory, Social learning (social pedagogy), Social learning theory, Social psychology, Timeline of psychology
See also
- Behaviorism
- Social experiment
- Developmental psychology
- Imitation
- Observational Learning
- Role model
- Influence of mass media
- Psychological experiment
