Analyzing Bandura's Research

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Bandura’s experiment was designed to test whether people, especially children learn from others’ behaviors. The result showed that almost every child imitate how other adults behave to the Bobo dolls. When the children saw them act aggressively to the dolls, they did the same. This experiment shows us the significant influence of one’s behaviors toward the people around us. I agree with this finding and the social learning theory, because I saw many examples in my life. For instance, if I don’t wash dishes after dinner, and my cousin see the unwashed dishes in the kitchen sink, then most of the time he will leave the dishes unwashed in the sink as well. But if I just put my dishes on the countertop neatly, or just pretending I have washed the

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