What Is Albert Bandura's Experiment To Reduce Aggression
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, scientist believed that watching acts of violence would hypothetically reduce your aggression (McLeod, 2011). Albert Bandura decided to conduct an experiment to test if other peoples’ actions influenced our emotions and thoughts. His experiment would be focused around aggression and included kids, adults and various toys. These kids would be from ages 3-5 year olds. Bandura would put kids in a room with an adult with a couple of toys; one being a giant inflatable doll better known as the Bobo doll. In his experiment, he had the child present in the room while the adult was hitting and beating the Bobo doll. The child would play with the toys as well as watch the adult beat this Bobo doll for around ten
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The result from this experiment supported Bandura theory as when the adult didn’t hit the doll, the kid would not hit the doll. It was also proven that observation was closest and more accurate when the adult and child were the same sex. In his third observation, Bandura took away the adult and the toys and added television violence. He would have these same kids sit in a room and watch television. The television showed clips such as fighting and wrestling. He had the kids sit and watch television and then he observed them as they went played outside. As well as supporting his theories, the kids went outside and began to fight and wrestle. This theory by Albert Bandura relates to observational learning and social influences that is discussed in social psychology. Social influence is the way that people are affected by those around us (Pearson, 2016). Observational learning also supports that learning and behavior can occur by watching the behavior of another person. Bandura’s experiments were focused on violence and aggression but his theory can be viewed in many other
The result from this experiment supported Bandura theory as when the adult didn’t hit the doll, the kid would not hit the doll. It was also proven that observation was closest and more accurate when the adult and child were the same sex. In his third observation, Bandura took away the adult and the toys and added television violence. He would have these same kids sit in a room and watch television. The television showed clips such as fighting and wrestling. He had the kids sit and watch television and then he observed them as they went played outside. As well as supporting his theories, the kids went outside and began to fight and wrestle. This theory by Albert Bandura relates to observational learning and social influences that is discussed in social psychology. Social influence is the way that people are affected by those around us (Pearson, 2016). Observational learning also supports that learning and behavior can occur by watching the behavior of another person. Bandura’s experiments were focused on violence and aggression but his theory can be viewed in many other