Summary Of The Bobo Doll Experiment
Chapter 4 was about the infancy stage. This chapter expressed how infants develop during this stage and their preferences, as well as learning habits. The topics that will be discussed are the looking chamber, pictorial cues, bobo, and CS. Multiple sensory modalities, visual acuity, and ghost condition will be discussed.
Chapter 4 talked about the looking chamber on under the subtitle “The Preference Method” (138). The looking chamber contained patterns on display to the infant. The researchers looked in through the top to survey whether the subject preferred one pattern to the other. This helped researchers learn if infants were able to distinguish between patterns and if they preferred a specific pattern. I learned after reading the section …show more content…
A researcher named Bandura proposed that children could learn just from observation – a statement that was contradictory to previous researchers’ theories. To prove that he was right, he set up an experiment where preschool children would watch films of associates beating up a Bobo doll. After their altercation with the Bobo doll, the associates in the films were either rewarded, spanked and scolded, or had no attention at all. Researchers showed one film to each group of children. Then, the children were observed in a room with a Bobo doll to see if they had imitated the heinous acts toward the Bobo doll. The children who saw the associate rewarded and the children who saw the associate neither rewarded nor scolded acted hostile toward the Bobo doll. Even children who saw the associate punished displayed aggressive behavior once they were offered a …show more content…
In Lipsitt and Kaye’s experiment, the conditioned stimulus was a neutral tone that caused no effect to the infant. When the researchers paired the CS with a nipple (UCS) after several trials, the infant was conditioned to suck at the sound of the tone even if there was no nipple present. This process is known as classical conditioning.
Multiple sensory modalities explain that infants prefer objects that stimulate multiple senses as opposed to just one (153). In the textbook, the example they use is a kitten. Infants are more likely to be interested in a kitten because a kitten has several sensory stimulants. The infant hears a kitten purr, feels the soft fur, sees the shape and size, and smells its natural odor. (Hopefully, the infant doesn’t taste the kitten!) Playing with the kitten helps the infant to develop his or her
Chapter 4 talked about the looking chamber on under the subtitle “The Preference Method” (138). The looking chamber contained patterns on display to the infant. The researchers looked in through the top to survey whether the subject preferred one pattern to the other. This helped researchers learn if infants were able to distinguish between patterns and if they preferred a specific pattern. I learned after reading the section …show more content…
A researcher named Bandura proposed that children could learn just from observation – a statement that was contradictory to previous researchers’ theories. To prove that he was right, he set up an experiment where preschool children would watch films of associates beating up a Bobo doll. After their altercation with the Bobo doll, the associates in the films were either rewarded, spanked and scolded, or had no attention at all. Researchers showed one film to each group of children. Then, the children were observed in a room with a Bobo doll to see if they had imitated the heinous acts toward the Bobo doll. The children who saw the associate rewarded and the children who saw the associate neither rewarded nor scolded acted hostile toward the Bobo doll. Even children who saw the associate punished displayed aggressive behavior once they were offered a …show more content…
In Lipsitt and Kaye’s experiment, the conditioned stimulus was a neutral tone that caused no effect to the infant. When the researchers paired the CS with a nipple (UCS) after several trials, the infant was conditioned to suck at the sound of the tone even if there was no nipple present. This process is known as classical conditioning.
Multiple sensory modalities explain that infants prefer objects that stimulate multiple senses as opposed to just one (153). In the textbook, the example they use is a kitten. Infants are more likely to be interested in a kitten because a kitten has several sensory stimulants. The infant hears a kitten purr, feels the soft fur, sees the shape and size, and smells its natural odor. (Hopefully, the infant doesn’t taste the kitten!) Playing with the kitten helps the infant to develop his or her