The Bobo Doll Experiment

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The Bobo doll experiment was studied in 1961 by Albert Bandura, the point was to test if human aggression is a learned behavior or inherited. Bobo the doll was an inflatable toy that was about four feet tall and designed to spring back up when knocked over. During this study, he choose children as his subjects because he believe they are not properly acquainted with society rules yet much like adults. It was designed that each child individually sits in a room with toys along with an adult, they were assigned different toy that were allowed to be played with. They purposely made the adult play aggressively with bobo the doll to see if once the adult leaves the room the same aggression would be replicated by the child. Observing others, some

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