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Hi, welcome to my blog. My name is Fung and I am a secondary school student.
My interests are reading books, and playing outdoor sports. My most favoured sport is football, because it consists of communication and teamwork.
This blog is for saving my school work, and posting educational videos to help myself remember work I have done. Most of it will be written work, although I will post some videos.

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

22.04 Blog Post: Social Learning Theory and Bandura (1961)

The Bobo doll experiment conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 and 1963 were studies focused on studying children's behavior after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a Bobo doll. The participants were 36 boys and 36 girls from the Stanford University Nursery School aged between 3 to 6 years old. The researchers pre-tested the children for how aggressive they were by observing the children in the nursery and judged their aggressive behavior. The children were organized into different groups, where one set of groups would be exposed to non-aggressive behaviour towards the Bobo doll, whilst another would be exposed to aggressive behaviour towards the Bobo doll. The children were sat so they could observe how adults would treat the Bobo doll, so that afterwards the researchers could see if the children would imitate the actions. The results showed that children witnessing aggressive adult behaviour towards the Bobo doll lead to them imitating such violent actions. Whilst the non-aggressive group remained passive. This experiment showed low ecological validity, as it was set up under laboratory conditions. The child and the Bobo doll were strangers, and the child and the adult had no relationship whatsoever. Additionally, it is unlikely that a child and an adult would be left alone and this created a unrealistic environment. Moreover, there are arguments that children who had never played with a Bobo doll were more likely to respond in a violent manner. Lastly, it is possible to argue that the experiment was unethical. Considering that the children could have become more violent or had traumatic experience after the experiment, is uncertain.