The Bobo Doll Studies
Part 1
Write a short piece summarising and interpreting the information presented in the table.
The table reviews the findings of the Bandura, Ross and Ross (1963) research into whether children would replicate the behaviour of a model performing aggressive acts on a Bobo doll. The children were exposed to four experimental conditions, real life female model, real life male model, filmed female model, filmed male model and a control condition (no model) to measure how much of the aggression they would copy.
The findings showed that overall boys performed more aggressive acts (imitative and non-imitative) than girls towards the Bobo doll. The highest average (48.6) was by boys with exposure to the real life male model and the lowest (1.8) was by girls in the control condition with exposure to no model. Of the conditions the control mode on average had the least number of aggressive acts and the real life male model had the highest.
The findings seem to show that when the children were exposed to any form of violent behaviour from the models they became more imitatively and non-imitatively aggressive as a result.
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What social learning theory has taught us about children’s behaviour.
Summary
The aim of this report is to: * Discuss research by Bandura Ross and Ross (1963) on Social learning theory and aggression in children, widely known as ‘The Bobo Doll Studies’ (Oates 2012) * How and why the research was performed * How the research has contributed to our understanding of aggression in children * The relevance the research still has today * Some of the limitations of the research
Introduction
Social learning theory is based on people learning through observing others and imitating that behaviour (Oates 2012). In 1963 Albert Bandura and colleague’s wanted to demonstrate to what extent children would imitate aggressive behaviour they witnessed another person ( model) doing. The aggression would be directed towards a
Write a short piece summarising and interpreting the information presented in the table.
The table reviews the findings of the Bandura, Ross and Ross (1963) research into whether children would replicate the behaviour of a model performing aggressive acts on a Bobo doll. The children were exposed to four experimental conditions, real life female model, real life male model, filmed female model, filmed male model and a control condition (no model) to measure how much of the aggression they would copy.
The findings showed that overall boys performed more aggressive acts (imitative and non-imitative) than girls towards the Bobo doll. The highest average (48.6) was by boys with exposure to the real life male model and the lowest (1.8) was by girls in the control condition with exposure to no model. Of the conditions the control mode on average had the least number of aggressive acts and the real life male model had the highest.
The findings seem to show that when the children were exposed to any form of violent behaviour from the models they became more imitatively and non-imitatively aggressive as a result.
192 words
What social learning theory has taught us about children’s behaviour.
Summary
The aim of this report is to: * Discuss research by Bandura Ross and Ross (1963) on Social learning theory and aggression in children, widely known as ‘The Bobo Doll Studies’ (Oates 2012) * How and why the research was performed * How the research has contributed to our understanding of aggression in children * The relevance the research still has today * Some of the limitations of the research
Introduction
Social learning theory is based on people learning through observing others and imitating that behaviour (Oates 2012). In 1963 Albert Bandura and colleague’s wanted to demonstrate to what extent children would imitate aggressive behaviour they witnessed another person ( model) doing. The aggression would be directed towards a