Was the study ethical?
Despite the fact that Bandura, Ross and Ros’s Bobo doll experiment was really insighful and influential for today’s Psychology, it has some limitations such as lack of Ethics as the following points bellow.
Acording to BPS (British Psychological Society) guidelines, the researchers agreed that “harm to research participants must be avoided. Where risks arise as an unavoidable and integral element of the research, robust risk assessment and management protocols should be developed and complied with.”(BPS, 2010, p. 11). Although in the Bobo doll Experiment is not clearly specified if the children suffered any long term consequences as a result of the study because there was no track on them afterwards.
Regarding to confidentiality, …show more content…
Furthermore, one of the limitation of the study was its low ecological validity because it doesn’t accomplish with the requirements to generalize from observed behavior in the laboratory to natural behavior in the real world of the participants involved in the …show more content…
All of this had led to many studies in the subject and a really popular question: does watching violence in TV would lead to learn aggressive behavior?
Bandura Ross and Ross with the Bobo doll experiment clearly demonstrated that aggression can be learn by watching others even when they witness an aggressive model being punished, which makes it a suitable argument against TV violence.
The research strongly suggests that watching violence on TV can reduce viewer’s sensibility to the sight and thought of violence and to the suffering of victims which leads to habituation of the perception of violence, increasing the tendency to act aggressively.
However it is necessary to clarify that there are three aspects to take into consideration when we talk about aggression: Biological, psychological and Environmental and each have different theories so it is hereby important to highlight that the bobo doll experiment could be enough to argument against TV violence but it is not the only study in environmental stimuli and learning factor that contributes to human
Despite the fact that Bandura, Ross and Ros’s Bobo doll experiment was really insighful and influential for today’s Psychology, it has some limitations such as lack of Ethics as the following points bellow.
Acording to BPS (British Psychological Society) guidelines, the researchers agreed that “harm to research participants must be avoided. Where risks arise as an unavoidable and integral element of the research, robust risk assessment and management protocols should be developed and complied with.”(BPS, 2010, p. 11). Although in the Bobo doll Experiment is not clearly specified if the children suffered any long term consequences as a result of the study because there was no track on them afterwards.
Regarding to confidentiality, …show more content…
Furthermore, one of the limitation of the study was its low ecological validity because it doesn’t accomplish with the requirements to generalize from observed behavior in the laboratory to natural behavior in the real world of the participants involved in the …show more content…
All of this had led to many studies in the subject and a really popular question: does watching violence in TV would lead to learn aggressive behavior?
Bandura Ross and Ross with the Bobo doll experiment clearly demonstrated that aggression can be learn by watching others even when they witness an aggressive model being punished, which makes it a suitable argument against TV violence.
The research strongly suggests that watching violence on TV can reduce viewer’s sensibility to the sight and thought of violence and to the suffering of victims which leads to habituation of the perception of violence, increasing the tendency to act aggressively.
However it is necessary to clarify that there are three aspects to take into consideration when we talk about aggression: Biological, psychological and Environmental and each have different theories so it is hereby important to highlight that the bobo doll experiment could be enough to argument against TV violence but it is not the only study in environmental stimuli and learning factor that contributes to human