CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LEARNING THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is the theorist who designed the Bobo Doll experiment and stated that humans learn through imitation.
A
Jean Piaget
B
Albert Bandura
C
Ivan Pavlov
D
B. F. Skinner
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The Bobo Doll Experiment was performed in 1961 by Albert Bandura, to try and add credence to his belief that all human behavior was learned, through social imitation and copying, rather than inherited through genetic factors.

Detailed explanation-4: -Albert Bandura (1901–1994) was a psychologist who developed social learning theory. He studied children in order to understand how they learn from others. His studies showed that children imitate each other because they observe the actions of others and copy them. This process is called observational learning.

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