Analysis Of The Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment

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The first video on Aggression is the Bandura Bobo Doll Experiment. The Experiment was founded by Albert Bandera who was an American psychologist that set out to see how far watching other people influence another person 's behavior. According to the YouTube video uploaded by Geert Stienissen where Albert Bansera speaks on his discoveries, Bandura stated that: The segment was taken from an early experiment on learning of an aggressive styles of behavior through modeling children and how they watched a filmed adult perform novel aggressive acts towards an inflated doll and the physical aggression was accompanied by a novel hostile remarks (Stienissen). Bandura would have experimented on small children ages three to five and Bandera would study …show more content…
Steiner later talks about how Connor made her believe that she was the dominant partner in their relationship because he would idolize her and believed in her as a person but everything changed. Leslie Morgan Steiner stated that The first stage in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim, the second stage is to isolate the victim, the third stage is to introduce the threat of violence to see how she would react (TED). Steiner continued her story by saying Connor came home one Friday evening, he quit his job because of her since she made him feel safe and loved however once they moved to England Conner started buying guns and everything else went horribly wrong Connor first abused her 7 days before their wedding by choking her. The third and final video on Aggression is Serial Murderer Joel Rifkin, where he talks about his own behavior and neuropathology. Joel Rifkin killed 17 women in the 1990s before the police tried to pull him over for a missing license …show more content…
Rifkin was staying at an upstate New York prison where a man would visit him and talk to him about why he believed he killed those 17 women. The spokesperson stated that: The killing began on a winter night in 1989 after Rifkin picked up a prostitute in Manhattan, Rifkin added as the neighbor progress I had on me over a hundred and fifty dollars somewhere within the next couple of hours I just got fed up and I started hitting basically beaded her till my arms got tired and then we wrestled on the floor and I ended up strangling her; I’m starting to realize that I had done something that you know this is not good, this is extremely screwed up (Jesusmalaark11). The first attack wasn’t screwed up enough for Rifkin to stop attacking prostitutes and stop him from a cleanup process nearly as grotesque as his unconscionable crime. Rifkin talked about how he would cut up the victim with a hunting knife, severing the body, made it into small pieces, he would cut everything up to the joint and he would pop two of the joints

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