Question

) Review Bandura’s “Bobo Doll” study. Then, create an example of Observational Learning in the form of a brief narrative or story (no more than 2-3 sentences). Then, identify the model and the motivation to learn the behavior?.

Answer 1

Bobo doll experiment, groundbreaking study on aggression led by psychologist Albert Bandura that demonstrated that children are able to learn through the observation of adult behaviour.

Results of the Bobo Doll Experiment

The results indicated that while children of both genders in the non-aggressive group did exhibit less aggression than the control group, boys who had observed an opposite-sex model behave non-aggressively were more likely than those in the control group to engage in violence

Example of Observational Learning:

After witnessing an older sibling being punished for taking a cookie without asking, the younger child does not take cookies without permission.

Model and the motivation to learn the behavior:

Classical conditioning is a form of learning whereby a conditioned stimulus becomes associated with an unrelated unconditioned stimulus, in order to produce a behavioral response known as a conditioned response.

Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment. It is also a procedure that is used to bring about such learning.

Observational learning is learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others. It is a form of social learning which takes various forms, based on various processes.