Search results
Based, in part, on findings from the classic Bobo doll experiments, Bandura began developing the theoretical underpinnings of his social learning theory, to include the prominent role of observational learning and social modeling in human learning and motivation.
- 40KB
- 16
- Aim
- Sample
- Method
- Stage 1: Modeling
- Stage 2: Aggression Arousal
- Stage 3: Test For Delayed Imitation
- Results
- Conclusion
- Evaluation
Bandura (1961) conducted a controlled experiment study to investigate if social behaviors (i.e., aggression) can be acquired by observation and imitation.
Bandura, Ross, and Ross (1961) tested 36 boys and 36 girls from the Stanford University Nursery School aged between 3 to 6 years old. The researchers pre-tested the children for how aggressive they were by observing the children in the nursery and judged their aggressive behavior on four 5-point rating scales. It was then possible to match the chil...
A lab experimentwas used, in which the independent variable (the type of model) was manipulated in three conditions: 1. Aggressive model is shown to 24 children 2. Non-aggressive model is shown to 24 children 3. No model is shown (control condition) – 24 children
In the experimental conditions, children were individually shown into a room containing toys and played with some potato prints and pictures in a corner for 10 minutes while either: 1. 24 children (12 boys and 12 girls) watched a male or female model behaving aggressively towards a toy called a “Bobo doll”. The adults attacked the Bobo doll in a di...
All the children (including the control group) were subjected to “mild aggression arousal.” Each child was (separately) taken to a room with relatively attractive toys. As soon as the child started to play with the toys, the experimenter told the child that these were the experimenter’s very best toys and she had decided to reserve them for the oth...
The next room contained some aggressive toys and some non-aggressive toys. The non-aggressive toys included a tea set, crayons, three bears and plastic farm animals. The aggressive toys included a...The child was in the room for 20 minutes, and their behavior was observed and rated though a one-way mirror. Observations were made at 5-second intervals, therefore, giving 240 response units for e...Other behaviors that didn’t imitate that of the model were also recorded e.g., punching the Bobo doll on the nose.Children who observed the aggressive model made far more imitative aggressive responses than those who were in the non-aggressive or control groups.There was more partial and non-imitative aggression among those children who had observed aggressive behavior, although the difference for non-imitative aggression was small.The girls in the aggressive model condition also showed more physically aggressive responses if the model was male, but more verbally aggressive responses if the model was female. However, the exce...Boys were more likely to imitate same-sex models than girls. The evidence for girls imitating same-sex models is not strong.Bobo doll experiment demonstrated that children are able to learn social behavior such as aggression through the process of observation learning, through watching the behavior of another person. The findings support Bandura’s (1977) Social Learning Theory. This study has important implications for the effects of media violence on children.
There are three main advantages of the experimental method. 1. Experiments are the only means by which cause and effect can be established. Thus, it could be demonstrated that the model did have an effect on the child’s subsequent behavior because all variables other than the independent variable are controlled. 2. It allows for precise control of ...
Nov 25, 2022 · In these experiments, children observed adults, in vivo or in vitro, as well as cartoons, behaving aggressively toward a large, inflated doll (clown) named “Bobo doll”, for about 10 min. The findings of these studies are considered to support modeling, observational learning, or learning by imitation and provide evidence for Bandura's ...
Dec 28, 2022 · Bandura and his colleagues believed that the Bobo doll experiment demonstrates how specific behaviors can be learned through observation and imitation. According to Bandura, the violent behavior of the adult models toward the dolls led children to believe that such actions were acceptable.
Download reference work entry PDF. Description. The Bobo doll experiment was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 [ 1] and studied patterns of behavior associated with aggression. Additional studies of this type were conducted by Bandura in 1963 [ 2] and 1965.
- LynnaLanTien.Do@waldenu.edu
Aggressive Models (The Bobo Doll Experiment.) has been produced as part of an initiative by the website www.all-about-psychology.com to make historically important psychology publications widely available. Albert Bandura Richard I. Evans,Albert Bandura,1989-11-06 The latest addition to Praeger's Dialogues in Contemporary
People also ask
What were the Bobo doll experiments?
What did bandura predict during the Bobo doll experiment?
How many children were in the Bobo doll experiment?
Did a plastic Bobo doll help a psychologist?
scored as imitative responses. The model laid Bobo on its side, sat on it and punched it repeatedly in the nose. The model then raised the Bobo doll, picked up the mallet and struck the doll on the head. Following the mallet aggression, the model tossed the doll up in the air aggressively and kicked it about the room. This
