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Albert Bandura's Boobo Doll Studies
The bobo doll studies was an experiment conducted off of the idea of modeling. Albert Bandura created this bobo doll experiment in order to demonstrate one method of how children learn aggression. Bandura believed that learning occurred through observation (modeling) and interaction with other people. The experiment involved exposing children to an aggressive and non-aggressive adult model. Then, the children were put in a room without the model to see if they would imitate the behavior. Bandura predicted that children exposed to non-aggressive behavior would act less aggressive, children exposed to aggressive behavior would act more aggressive, children would imitate adults of the same sex more than opposite sex, and boys would be more aggressive
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