PERSONALITY
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORIES
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Question
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Select a strength of Bandura’s Bobo doll study:
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Exposure to aggression could mentally harm the children.
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The situation was low in ecological validity-no interaction between the child and the model-unlike in real life.
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The method ensures replication.
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The behaviour was measured immediately. No follow up to check whether the effects were long term
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -One of the primary strengths of social learning theory is its flexibility in explaining the differences in a person’s behavior or learning, i.e., when there is a change in a person’s environment, the person’s behavior may change.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bandura and his colleagues believed that the Bobo doll experiment demonstrates how specific behaviors can be learned through observation and imitation. According to Bandura, the violent behavior of the adult models toward the dolls led children to believe that such actions were acceptable.
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