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    The Bobo doll experiment was a landmark study conducted by Albert Bandura that demonstrated observational learning. In the experiment, children observed an adult model behaving aggressively towards an inflatable Bobo doll either through hitting or verbal abuse. Later, the children were placed in a room with the Bobo doll and their behavior was observed. The results showed that children who observed the aggressive adult model were more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior towards the Bobo doll themselves. This provided evidence that people can learn new behaviors and attitudes by observing others, even without direct reinforcement.

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    The Bobo doll experiment was a landmark study conducted by Albert Bandura that demonstrated observational learning. In the experiment, children observed an adult model behaving aggressively towards an inflatable Bobo doll either through hitting or verbal abuse. Later, the children were placed in a room with the Bobo doll and their behavior was observed. The results showed that children who observed the aggressive adult model were more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior towards the Bobo doll themselves. This provided evidence that people can learn new behaviors and attitudes by observing others, even without direct reinforcement.

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    Bobo Doll Experiment Explains Observational Learning Research Method

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    The Bobo doll experiment was a landmark study conducted by Albert Bandura that demonstrated observational learning. In the experiment, children observed an adult model behaving aggressively towards an inflatable Bobo doll either through hitting or verbal abuse. Later, the children were placed in a room with the Bobo doll and their behavior was observed. The results showed that children who observed the aggressive adult model were more likely to exhibit aggressive behavior towards the Bobo doll themselves. This provided evidence that people can learn new behaviors and attitudes by observing others, even without direct reinforcement.

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    Explain the use of one research method used in the study of the individual and the group.

    The bobo-doll experiment was performed by an observational and laboratory method. the bobo doll
    experiment has shown that the kids may learn by observing adult behavior. The psychiatrist, Albert
    Bandura, has preformed a major study on violence. The experiment was led by a team of
    researchers who beat an inflatable doll physically and verbally in front children, which caused
    children to copy the adult behavior in later point by beating the doll in the same way.

    The experiment had two models for adults: an aggressive one and a non-aggressive one. After the
    performance of the adult, the children would be placed in a room without the model, and it would
    be observed to see whether they would repeat the behavior they had previously experienced.

    The dependent variable was the measure of attempt to mimic behavior and violence showed by the
    kid in stage three, evaluated by the male model, and sometimes by the second researcher, who
    went through a one-way mirror observing each child and recorded them at 5 second ranges.

    Sample and sampling method was used too, 72 kids (36 boys and 36 girls, aged 37-69 months, mean
    52 months, from Stanford University Nursery School). A technique was used to or before the
    participants for aggression. The researcher and a nursery schoolteacher observed them on four five-
    point measures, which both have a good knowledge of the children. These ratings showed the level
    of physical violence, verbal aggression, and aggressive prevention against objects. The participants
    were grouped in three parts and assigned randomly to one of the two test groups or to the control
    group, based on these scores.

    Social science suggests that people learn from observing, copying, and copying. Moreover, it
    particularly suggests that people learn not just through violence or punishment, as usual in action,
    but through the observation of others because of their behavior, get rewards or consequences
    (observational learning). The experiments are essential because they led to many more
    observational learning studies. Furthermore, the result suggested other practical theories about how
    children may be influenced by violent media display, for example.

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