Assignment

on

Bobo Doll Experiment

Submitted by: Bilal pervaiz (191520153)

Submitted to: Mam Nashrah Abbas

Course name: Educational Psychology

Course Code: 301

Section: H

Date of submission: 12 August 2022

Department of Clinical Psychology

GIFT University, Gujranwala

 Summary of Bobo Doll Experiment

Bandura's study focused on children between the ages of three and six. Each child was

shown a video of an adult hitting and yelling at an inflatable clown doll, called a

'Bobo doll.' The children were divided into three groups: One group saw the adult

punished after showing aggression towards the Bobo doll, one group saw the adult

rewarded after showing aggression, and one group saw the aggression but did not see

the adult either punished or rewarded for the aggression.

After watching the video, the child was left alone with a Bobo doll in the room,

though Bandura was secretly watching from another room. He counted how many

aggressive acts - such as hitting, yelling, cursing, and punching - that each child

engaged in. He found that the children who watched the adult get rewarded for

showing aggression were more likely to show aggression themselves. He also found

that, no matter which version of the video they saw, boys were more likely than girls

to imitate the aggressive behavior of the adults in the video.

Results

Bandura and his colleagues had predicted that children in the non-aggressive group

would behave less aggressively than those in the control group. The results indicated

that while children of both genders in the non-aggressive group did tend to exhibit

less aggression than the control group, boys who had observed an opposite-sex model

behave non-aggressively were more likely than those in the control group to engage in

violence.