Analysis Of Bandura's Bobo Doll

In Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment, performed in the 1960’s by Dr. Albert Bandura, showed the children a video of an adult hitting, punching, kicking and, moreover general aggression towards the doll. While another group of children viewed an adult, being gentle with the Bobo doll and a control group in which there was no influence towards the doll. Because Dr. Bandura used isolated groups and used unique methods with each group, his research, classified as an experiment as he was manipulating a factor, which was the type of attitude shown to the Bobo doll that the children watched (Myers, 2014). In the begging of the study, there were 72 children, 36 boys and 36 girls, observed at the Stanford University and tested for aggressive behavior

Nature versus nurture is a long question of whether genetics influence environmental or environmental influences, genetics (Myers, 2014). While we are all born with 20,000 to 25,000 genes there are some that are dormant and some active; believed that environmental influences effect which stay dormant and which become active (Myers, 2014). Throughout Bandura’s experiment, we can see that while some children already seem exposed to elements to awaken the genes for anger and aggression. While others seem to repeat what they saw the adult do, but not with as much force and

One of the greatest things to come from his experiment was that we have begun to understand that children of any age are very impressionable to the world around them. They may become violent because of what the watch daily on television. Moreover, children may be influenced in the opposite direction with one act of kindness. Thanks to Bandura’s experiment early childhood educators have begun to learn that child come to school and want a safe and secure environment. If a child is acting out in school the environmental influences could be all that they know. Bandura taught us that violence provokes