Social learning theory/Bobo doll Flashcards
Social learning theory
A theory that explains that we learn from one another rather than from reinforcement or punishment
Developted by Albert Bandura
Strengths of social learning theory
Lots of evidence to support social learning theory of aggresive behaviour.
Bandura conducted a series of experiements that exposed nursery-aged children to an aggresive role model
Weakness of social learing theory
Some criminal behaviour connot be explained by observational learning like murder, for example is rarely witnessed in real life
And it cannot be tested in real life
Summarie of Bobo doll
Children were put in a room. Children saw a bobo doll being beat up for 10 minutes. Children were taken taken to a room to play with safe toys. Then children were taken to a room with the bobo doll and took their fustration out on it.
What did Albert Bandura set out to find
How far watching other people influences our behaviours
Who did Bandura experiment on and how many girls and boys?
Small children between 3-5 years
36 girls and 36 boys
What is a bobo doll?
Giant inflatable doll
What did the adult model do to the bobo doll?
Shouting and viciously beating up the doll
Results
The children in the aggresive condition showed most aggresion. They also showed non-imitive aggresion showing they had made up new ways to be agressive
Gender results
physical aggresion was most likely to be copied by a boy observing a same sex role model
Girls were just as likely to copy verbal aggression from a same sex model as boys
