LEARNING
OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING
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Question
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Exposure to aggressive adult role models may cause children to show increased aggressive behaviour
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Exposure to aggressive adult role models may cause children to show less aggressive behaviour
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Children appear to learn through operant conditioning
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Children appear to learn through classical conditioning
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Detailed explanation-1: -Conclusion. Bobo doll experiment demonstrated that children are able to learn social behavior such as aggression through the process of observation learning, through watching the behavior of another person. The findings support Bandura’s (1977) Social Learning Theory.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bobo doll experiment, groundbreaking study on aggression led by psychologist Albert Bandura that demonstrated that children are able to learn through the observation of adult behaviour.
Detailed explanation-3: -The findings support Bandura’s ‘social learning theory’ – that is, children learn social behaviour such as aggression through the process of observation – through watching the behaviour of another person.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hypotheses. Bandura, Ross and Ross (1961) had four hypotheses: Children shown aggressive models will show significantly more imitative aggressive acts resembling those of their models than those shown non-aggressive or no models.