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Social Learning Theory: Bandura’s Bobo Beatdown Experiments


Learn more about Bandura's social learning theory.

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Sprouts makes educational videos about psychology, pedagogy and child development. The short animated videos are aimed to inspire and broaden your knowledge in these areas.

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What do you think? Can we learn only through direct experience, or also from studying others? To prove that children can learn by mere observation, american-canadian psychologist Albert Bandura came up with the Bobo Doll Experiments - a set of controversial studies, which involved preschool children, adult models and a stand-up punch doll. What did he find out?