Picture this. It is 1961 and you are walking down the halls of a university and you are in the building where psychologist Albert Bandura is conducting an experiment. You see an adult whacking aggressively at a big doll and then you see a child doing the same exact set of actions, maybe even being more aggressive such as using a hammer. Can, you imagine the picture? This experiment is called the Bobo Doll experiment.
So what is the Bobo Doll experiment? The experiment shows the effects of observational learning learned by children coming from the adult's actions. The experiment starts with the and adults showing the child who is in the same room hitting, stabbing, and yelling at the doll name Bobo. The psychologist records in the scene such as the face of the child and their reactions to the adult. Since this is 1961, these scientists had the authority of using young children ages five through seven for experiments which unfortunately, it could cause fear of Bobo dolls now. Anyway, the child is alone and they are given a bunch of toys. Once the toys are taken, away and is left which the Bobo doll, it is seen that the child is doing the same set of action of what the adult has done to the same doll: hitting, screaming, and even slashing with an object like a hammer. As a resulting experiment, Bandura does not use the Bobo doll, but rather bring in a television and show them a clip of a child hitting the doll and a clip of fantasy fighting such as in movies. Consequently, these children are more prone to violence and to get into a fight. According to Crash Course in Psychology, this shows the effects of observational learning or mirror learning which is partnered with conditioning and association, and rewards with punishments. During this time, psychologist Albert Bandura testified this theory of how important parents are to children in their development of learning because they are the models of how children should act. In psychology terms, models are the process of observing and imitating a specific behavior. However, since we are in the age of technology, many media (like YouTube or Snapchat) and technology like what we see in the news or movies can influence our observational learning and how we behave.
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