Have you ever questioned the fact that children will imitate aldults’ behaviors‚ especially their parents’? What seemed to be such an intuitive thought today was thought to be exotic before the 1960s. One famous experiment conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 has changed all that and help shaped the world we are living in today. If you are so familiar with that concept of learning through social interaction‚ then you have Bandura to thank for that. Banura set up this experiment in order to prove his
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responsible for all the labor work for the whites. McLaurin was not aware of how severe racism was at that time until he experienced it first hand with Bobo. Bobo‚ who was his first black friend‚ was not an important part of his life although they grew up together and had known him his whole life. It all started one fall Saturday afternoon when McLaurin‚ BoBo and six other people‚ white and black‚ started playing a pickup game. Pickup games were basketball games played between two integrated teams‚ regardless
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children (36 girls and 36 boys aged 3-5) and split them into groups‚ showing each group a film of an adult with a bobo doll but each film showed the adult behaving differently with the bobo doll. Group 1(the experimental condition) observed the adult acting aggressively to the bobo doll‚ whereas group 2 (the control condition) saw the adult acting in a non-aggressive manner and ignoring the bobo doll. The children were then taken to room 1 where they were told they were not allowed to play with toys and
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There was a follow up experiment‚ in 1963‚ which used the same methodology but showed the subjects violence via video; this had a much less defined response than the initial experiment. Another refinement of the Bobo Doll Experiment‚ in 1965‚ tried to establish the effects of rewarding or punishing bad and violent behavior. Children‚ who witnessed the model being punished for aggressive behavior‚ were much less likely to follow suit. Interestingly‚ there was no
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another room filled with interesting toys‚ some of an aggressive type such as‚ a 3-foot Bobo doll‚ a mallet and a peg board‚ and some nonaggressive such as‚ a tea set‚ crayons‚ and coloring paper‚ a ball‚ and plastic farm animals. The subjects were observed through a one-way mirror‚ and behaviors such as‚ physical aggression‚ verbal aggression‚ and the number of times the mallet was used to strike the Bobo doll was assessed. Results: Confounds within study: There are minimal confounding
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towards a Bobo doll. Half of group one saw a male model and the other half a female model. Group 2 Exposed to a real life person behaving aggressively towards a Bobo doll through a film. Half of the group saw a male model and the other a female model. Group 3 Exposed to a film of a cartoon behaving aggressively towards the Bobo doll. The model in the cartoon was not gender specific‚ so could have been male or female. Group 4 Not exposed to any aggressive behaviour towards the Bobo doll.
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Explain the Social Learning Theory‚ making reference to two relevant studies. By Tanisha Sabhaney Behaviouristic theories of learning are essentially theories of conditioning and emphasize the role of reinforcement in learning. One of the mot predominant theories is Albert Bandura’s social learning theory‚ which assumes that. People learn through observing others’ behavior‚ attitudes‚ and outcomes of those behaviors which is called observational learning‚ that is an indirect form of learning known
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Q. 2. Elucidate Bandura’s theory of social learning. Introduction : Learning is a social process and we learn through interaction with others in our day to day life. Prior to 1960‚ theories of learning were heavily influenced by behaviorist and cognitivist theories. But Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory posits that people learn from one another - via observation‚ imitation‚ and modeling. The social learning theory has often been called a bridge between behaviorist and cognitive learning
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liquor store so that he can prove his manhood. On Friday‚ Walter and his wife‚ Ruth‚ are in the Younger apartment. Walter and Ruth fight about Walter’s dream of owning a liquor store. Walter’s plans are to own it with his two buddies‚ Willy Harris and Bobo. Walter tries to use Ruth’s help to persuade Mama into giving Walter the insurance money from his father’s life insurance so he can achieve his dreams. Walter smooth talks his wife to say to his mother‚ “You been thinkin’ bout that deal Walter Lee
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status and power‚ the behavior is more likely to be imitated. Bandura carried out his own research to support the SLT. In the early 1960’s Bandura carried out the bobo doll experiment. There were 3 groups in this is study‚ who were each exposed to a different condition. One group were exposed to an aggressive adult playing with the bobo doll‚ by hitting and kicking it.
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