The Bobo Doll Experiment

Dr. Mamie Clark and Dr. Kenneth Clark, the first African Americans to earn doctoral degrees in psychology from Columbia University were destined to use their platform for social awareness and change. Dr. Mamie Clark and Dr. Kenneth Clark are most well known for their Clark Doll experiment, an experiment that would later be used in of the most landmark Supreme Court cases, Brown vs. the Board of Education.

Any field of any occupation would be futile if the aim of the employee, or manager, or operator is monetary or that of pretentious prestige. Only a few have contributed to not only their fields but to the world by dedication and altruism that positively affects society as a whole. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, married African American psychologists, whom influenced the thoughts and behaviors and even engendered wars to change a moronic ideal set that, back then, came to annihilate the country. Mamie Clark was born in Arkansas; her father was a doctor; and so she and her 2 siblings had a privileged childhood, due to the well social and financial level they lived in despite witnessing the Jim Crow era and racial segregation in schools. Mamie

Albert Bandura created the bobo doll experiment in 1961, the aim of this experiment was to show that if children where witnesses to aggressive displays by an adult of some sort they would imitate this behaviour when given an opportunity. The tested group contained 36 young girls and 36 young boys all aged between 4 and 5 years which was then divided into 3 groups of 24 – the aggressive condition, the non aggressive condition and the control group. The first group involved the children watching aggressive models, where the children where then subdivided by sex of the role model they were exposed to. The second group

I found the Clark doll experiment to be really upsetting. Where 15 of the 21 African American children found the white doll to be prettier and nicer. What is wrong with our society that we teach our kids that it’s better to be white? Or to be ashamed of there skin tone? Its shocking how influenced we are by one another and our surrounding environments. I learned how strong pier pressure could be, and how easy it is to simply follow directions and not ask questions. There are truly so many external factors that take apart in our decision-making and

1. The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment that was created to test the effect between prisoners and prison officers. The experiment took place in the basement of one of the buildings in Stanford University. The prisoners and guards in the experiment were college students. The college students were told that they would get $15 dollars a day and that the experiment would last two weeks. The guards and prisoners were decided by a flip of a coin. The experiment abruptly ended after six days because of the mental break downs and hunger strikes the inmates were having. The BoBo Doll Experiment was an experiment that studied aggression. The way that the experiment worked was that they had adults attack the BoBo doll and they made the children watch to see if they would mimic the adults actions. When presented with the BoBo doll the children acted the same way as they saw the adults act. They were able to learn the aggression and hostile language from the adults.

The Bobo Doll experiment was an experiment to see how violence effects people. They wanted to see if watching someone else be violent would make you or a child copy the same actions. This was tested by putting a child in a room with an adult and having said child watch the man violently attack a bobo doll. They tested this on two different kids both different genders and they both attacked the doll just like the adult did.

Albert Bandura conducted a famous experiment known as the Bobo doll experiment. The experiment has helped in developing the social learning theory.

Bandura suggested children learn from watching adults – referred to as ‘Bobo doll experiment’. Three groups of children watched a film of a variation in behaviour in adults towards a doll.

The fundamentals of the social learning theory significantly describe offenders and their criminal behavior which is learned based on observation and imitation. A researcher by the name of Albert Bandura along with coworkers tested the social learning theory with several experiments on children and their imitation of aggression based on what they saw and were exposed to. Bandura’s focus was to prove that human behavior such as aggression is learned through social imitations and copying the actions of others. Walters (1966) gives details about the Bobo doll experiment and explains its purpose related to learning a violent behavior based on observation. In the experiment, the tested subjects were children of both sexes, ranging from the ages of three to six years. Some of the children were exposed to a non-aggressive adult, while the other children were placed in a room with an aggressive adult who would both physically and verbally attack the Bobo doll. The control group in the experiment was not exposed to any adult. During the second phase of the experiment, the children were left in a room by themselves with the toys, and watched to see if they would demonstrate the aggressive behavior like that of which they observed adults doing earlier. Walter (1966) describes the results as “children who had been exposed to an aggressive model showed more imitative physical and verbal

The Bobo doll experiment was a collection of experiments conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 to try to add credit to his belief that all human belief is learned through social interaction than by genetic factors. The experiment consisted of a Bobo doll, an inflatable toy about five feet tall that is designed to spring back and forth when knocked over. Bandura selected 36 Boys and 36 girls, 72 children in total from ages 3 to 6 years from the local Stanford Nursery school to be tested (Cloninger, 258). The method used to test this experiment was the lab method in which the independent variable manipulates the three conditions that Bandura set up which are the first 24 children (12 Boys, 12 Girls) were shown the aggressive model, the second 24

The Bobo doll experiment was an experiment showing that children learned from adult behavior. There were 3 groups of children who were observing opposite sex behavior towards the bobo doll. The other 3 groups of children were observing

A tip I believe that should be communicated to current or expectant parents is to watch how they themselves express their frustration and angry in front of their children. A child does not fully understand the impact that various actions can have, and continual expression of these behaviors can lead to their normalization. For example, if a parent continually hits various objects to alleviate stress or frustration, the child will believe that hitting those objects is normal and continue that behavior. The Bobo doll experiment, by Albert Bandura, is an example of this occurrence. In this experiment, Nursery school children first watched a video were an adult model repeatedly hit a Bodo doll in various ways, and were then individually placed

The room was also equipped with a one-way window so the child could be observed without their acknowledgement. The experiment showed that the consequences in the films that the children observed in the ending, created a different outcome. The children who witnessed the film were the adult was rewarded was most likely to repeat or imitate the aggressive behavior toward the Bobo doll. In the situation of the other children who watched the adult being punished for their aggressive behavior, the children were less likely to recreate the aggressive behavior towards the Bobo doll. After the findings Bandura added to the experiment. The children who watched any of the three films were asked to recreate what the adult did in the film. Each imitation the child recreated correctly, they were rewarded with candy and stickers. Virtually all the children were capable of recreating all actions, aggressive or non-aggressive. The different variations of the films the children watched had no impact on them. In conclusion to Bandura’s experiment, you are capable of imitating any behavior, aggressive or non-aggressive, but you are more likely to imitate if there is expectation of any type of reward.

A man by the name of Albert Bandura came up with an experiment the studies the Social Learning theory; the experiment was called the Bobo Doll Experiment. In the early 1960’s, Albert Bandura conducted this experiment and in this experiment, he had children watch a video of an adult aggressively playing with toys, including a Bobo doll. This adult hit the bobo doll, knocked it down and jumped on the doll screaming “POW!” AND “Kick him!”

The Bobo Doll Experiment was a study on aggression conducted by Albert Bandura at Stanford University in 1961 because there was a lot of debate about whether a child’s social development was due to genetics, environment factors, or social learning from others around them. The purpose of the study was to give credit to Bandura’s claim that children behavior can be acquired by observation and imitation of a trusted adult role model. The experiment was performed by a team of researchers who physically and verbally mistreated a 3- and 5-foot painted cartoon clown doll, that is designed to sit back upright when knocked down, in front of preschool-age children, which led the children to later copy the behavior of the adults by attacking the doll in the same fashion.