Social learning theory made to the importances of observational learning, imitation and modeling beyond quesetionable. His theory combined a continuous interaction between behaviors, cognitions and the environment to see what they out come would be. This led to his most famous experiment. The experiment was the named Bobo doll study. The experiment ran as fallowed Albert Bandura made a movie of a woman beating up a Bobo doll and yelling. He then showed the movie to children. Afterwards, the children were told to play in a room that had a Bobo doll in it. The children immediately began to beat the doll, mimicking the woman in the movie. The significance of the study was it differentiated from behaviorism’s ideas that all behavior is influenced by reinforcement or rewards. The children ere given no prize or punishment for beating up the doll; they were just copying the woman they had seen. Bandura named this “observational
Social learning theory made to the importances of observational learning, imitation and modeling beyond quesetionable. His theory combined a continuous interaction between behaviors, cognitions and the environment to see what they out come would be. This led to his most famous experiment. The experiment was the named Bobo doll study. The experiment ran as fallowed Albert Bandura made a movie of a woman beating up a Bobo doll and yelling. He then showed the movie to children. Afterwards, the children were told to play in a room that had a Bobo doll in it. The children immediately began to beat the doll, mimicking the woman in the movie. The significance of the study was it differentiated from behaviorism’s ideas that all behavior is influenced by reinforcement or rewards. The children ere given no prize or punishment for beating up the doll; they were just copying the woman they had seen. Bandura named this “observational