Bandura Bobo Doll experiment I guess ?
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- Bobo Doll
- A group of nursery school children watched an adult mistreating a bobo doll.
- The adult mistreated the doll by punching it, kicking it and hitting it with a mallet.
- Bobo Doll
- harm and the well-being of participants. The children may have been distressed by the aggressive behaviour they witnessed the aggressive behaviour the children learned from thestudymay have stayed with them, going on to become a behavioural problem.
- Albert Bandura, then exposed this group (the experimental group) and another group who had not watched the violence (the control group) to a ‘frustrating experience’. They were shown a room full of exciting toys and given the impression they could play with them.
- Ethical Issues
- Justifications
- They were then told they could not and taken individually to a room of unattractive toys which included a bobo doll and a mallet.
- Bobo Doll
- As Bandura had predicted, those who had earlier watched the mistreatment of the bobo doll were more likely to imitate this behaviour and show aggression towards the doll.
- However this study faced huge critasisms for being exremely unethical and permenantly altering the child participants' behaviour
- However some argue these experimentsareimportant because they resulted in many more studies concerning the effects of observational learning.
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