It is the championship football game. Lauderdale County is up 36 to 35, however, the opposing team is just 5 yards away from a touch down with 3.2 seconds remaining. “What are we going to do captain?”, asked Joseph. “We have got to rush the line of scrimmage and blitz the lineman and go for the sack,” said Junior, the captain. “All right men, let’s win this football game!” Everyone replied in a loud chant, “Ready… Break!” The football players took their position and were pumped and ready for the other team to snap the ball. Then like in an instant the play was underway. Jimmy had a rush of adrenaline and busted right through the line of scrimmage and ran straight for the quarterback who was about to throw the ball. Jimmy hit the quarterback
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While still at Stanford, Bandura tested thirty-six boys and thirty-six girls from the Stanford University Nursery School (McLeod n.p.). The ages of the examinees were ages three to six years old. Before conducting the experiment the individual children were researched and scored in four categories to examine how aggressive they already were. A lab experiment was then used when twenty-four children were shown an aggressive model, twenty-four children were shown a non-aggressive model, and finally, a third group that was shown no model whatsoever. Now the children were separated into their respected rooms. Each room had a doll, hence the name “Bobo doll experiment.” The aggressive children’s group was shown an adult being extremely aggressive and beating the doll, in some cases with a hammer (McLeod n.p.). The non-aggressive children’s group was shown an adult who played with tinker toys in a quiet and subdued manner, completely ignoring the doll. The final twenty-four children were not exposed to any model at all. After this, each individual child was taken to their own room filled with toys. There were both aggressive and non-aggressive toys. The non-aggressive toys consisted of a tea set, crayons, three bears, and plastic farm animals. The aggressive toys consisted of a mallet, peg board, dart guns, and a three-foot bobo doll. The result of this experiment was that the children shown the aggressive adult model, were extremely more aggressive while using the toys in the room (McLeod n.p.). Another interesting finding in this experiment was that boys were more likely to imitate a same-sex model than the girls were (McLeod n.p.). In the end, the findings of Bandura’s experiment support that children learn behaviors, such as aggression, from watching
While still at Stanford, Bandura tested thirty-six boys and thirty-six girls from the Stanford University Nursery School (McLeod n.p.). The ages of the examinees were ages three to six years old. Before conducting the experiment the individual children were researched and scored in four categories to examine how aggressive they already were. A lab experiment was then used when twenty-four children were shown an aggressive model, twenty-four children were shown a non-aggressive model, and finally, a third group that was shown no model whatsoever. Now the children were separated into their respected rooms. Each room had a doll, hence the name “Bobo doll experiment.” The aggressive children’s group was shown an adult being extremely aggressive and beating the doll, in some cases with a hammer (McLeod n.p.). The non-aggressive children’s group was shown an adult who played with tinker toys in a quiet and subdued manner, completely ignoring the doll. The final twenty-four children were not exposed to any model at all. After this, each individual child was taken to their own room filled with toys. There were both aggressive and non-aggressive toys. The non-aggressive toys consisted of a tea set, crayons, three bears, and plastic farm animals. The aggressive toys consisted of a mallet, peg board, dart guns, and a three-foot bobo doll. The result of this experiment was that the children shown the aggressive adult model, were extremely more aggressive while using the toys in the room (McLeod n.p.). Another interesting finding in this experiment was that boys were more likely to imitate a same-sex model than the girls were (McLeod n.p.). In the end, the findings of Bandura’s experiment support that children learn behaviors, such as aggression, from watching