PERSONALITY
SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORIES
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Question
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She reminded them of their mothers.
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The women only engaged in verbal aggression and most of the children were too young to understand.
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The children were afraid of her.
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Her behaviour was not seen as consistent with women’s behaviour.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is an explanation for why the children in Bandura’s 1961 study did not imitate the behaviour of the female model when she was bashing the Bobo? She reminded them of their mothers. The women only engaged in verbal aggression and most of the children were too young to understand.
Detailed explanation-2: -If the vicarious reinforcement is not seen to be important enough to the observer, then they will not imitate the behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -For this purpose, Bandura designed the Bobo Doll Experiment to try and prove that children would copy an adult role model’s behavior. He wanted to show, by using aggressive and non-aggressive actors, that a child would tend to imitate and learn from the behavior of a trusted adult.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.