Bobo doll experiment
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- Bobo Doll
- A group of nursery school children watched an adult mistreating a bobo doll.
- The adult mistreated the doll by punching it, kicking it and hitting it with a mallet.
- Bobo Doll
- the children were subjected to a dangerous scenery that couldv'e traumatized them the aggressive behaviour the children observed could stick with them for life
- Albert Bandura, then exposed this group (the experimental group) and another group who had not watched the violence (the control group) to a ‘frustrating experience’. They were shown a room full of exciting toys and given the impression they could play with them.
- Ethical Issues
- Justifications
- They were then told they could not and taken individually to a room of unattractive toys which included a bobo doll and a mallet.
- Bobo Doll
- As Bandura had predicted, those who had earlier watched the mistreatment of the bobo doll were more likely to imitate this behaviour and show aggression towards the doll.
- However this study faced huge critasisms for being exremely unethical and permenantly altering the child participants' behaviour
- however this experiment was very benefitial to the world of phychology and taught people a lot
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