Bandura's Social Learning Experiment: Observing and Imitating Behavior

Running head: social learning
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Running head: social learning
INTRODUCTION
Bandura’s social learning experiment aimed to investigate, whether social behaviour can be
acquired by observation and imitating. The experiment constituted of Bobbo doll and
children with mild aggressive behaviour (Bandura & Huston 1961). After stimulating the
children, it was noticed that the children were responding to the aggressive behaviour, both
physical and verbal. Bandura studied the behaviours of the children and watched how they
learn new kinds of behaviour. By this experiment, he could support his social leering theory,
because it enabled him to show people not only learn by sanction f reward ad punishment
(Bandura & Huston 1961). They also leant by just mere observation, thus it could be
concluded that human being learn by mere observing the behaviours of others. This
experiment helped us to comprehend how our unconscious mind can effectively work to
make us adapt to work or act in a certain way. His experiment open up vista of newer
dimension of social leaning theory. For example, Cooley’s analysis of Looking Glass Self,
Mead’s theorization of Mind, Self and Society, explored oh how human makes meaning from
the social world. How ad to what extent behaviour can get influences, whether there is core
self, or the nature of self is inorganic. Thus, his experiment served a crucial point of reference
for social and well as psychological theories.
With the constant development of technology and science, there are now various media
through which the children can be influenced. For instance, the video gaming, which can also
be accessible in mobile phone, Television, and other internet channels. The aim for my
hypothesis is to explore if gaming in the virtual world can affect the children or reduce their
active participation in the social activities. This kind of experiment is important because it
provides significant light on the notion of work and play (Bandura Ross & Ross 1963). Either
gaming can help the children to imbibe to the working condition or it can create social
isolation. The hypotheses is to see whether games based on violence affect the children to act