Social learning Theory_ Bandura’s Bobo Beatdown Experiments.

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?

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CLASSROOM EXERCISE Experiment! Choose two or more activities that your class will be doing together (best would be simple physical actions like summersaults or yoga poses). For each activity select a different style of demonstration (one demonstrate yourself, one let a student demonstrate, and one will only be described to the students). Make sure everyone executes each pose or activity once. Which learning style do your students prefer? Could they do it better? Encourage each of your students to demonstrate their own activity or pose and explain it in a way they think their classmates will get it. Vary the level of detail of explanation for more interesting results!

Chapters

00:00 Bandura's Hypothesis

00:07 The Bobo Doll Experiment

02:39 Bandura's impact

03:06 Tenets of Social Learning Theory

03:44 Conclusion