Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment

Bandura’s Bobo Doll Experiment

Aim: The aim was to see if children could be influenced in an aggressive way by the means a model showing them.

Participants: between the ages of 42 months and 71 months

Results: the children exposed to the aggressive model were more likely to act in physically aggressive ways than those who were not exposed to the aggressive model

Results: gender differences strongly supported Bandura's prediction that children are more influenced by same-sex models

Conclusion: Children are easily influence when in the presence of a same- sex aggressive model.

Limits: upper-middle class and rich whites were able to afford putting their children in a nursery. Thus, the subjects would turn out to be mostly white and of similar backgrounds

What Factors Make us More Likely to imitate the behavior of a model? 
- Relation (Family, stranger…)
- Gender