GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LEARNING THEORIES
Question
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Cuddling the bobo doll
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Talking to the bobo doll
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Acting aggressively towards the bobo doll
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Leaving the bobo doll alone
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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: -Boys were more likely to imitate same-sex models than girls. The evidence for girls imitating same-sex models is not strong. Boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls. There was little difference in the verbal aggression between boys and girls.
Detailed explanation-3: -He explains in his 1977 book Social Learning Theory, “most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions, this coded information serves as a guide for action."
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Bandura, people observe behavior either directly through social interactions with others or indirectly by observing behaviors through media. Actions that are rewarded are more likely to be imitated, while those that are punished are avoided.
Detailed explanation-5: -Albert Bandura is a psychologist whose famous Bobo doll experiment showed that children who watched a video showing violence being rewarded were more likely to imitate that violence.