Observational Learning

Observational learning

learning new behavior by observing a model

Model

someone exhibiting a certain behavior(s)

Bobo doll experiment

Conducted by Albert Bandura

• Had a woman (model) interact with toys in a room with children, she played with the toys nicely and when she left the children played with them gently too

• Then she hit a bobo doll aggressively and when she left the children did the same thing

• from this Bandura developed Social Learning Theory

Social Learning Theory

Aggression is the result of modeling other people’s behavior