WHY is ALBERT BANDURA important to child development?
Albert Bandura conducted an observational learning experiment. He divided a number of kids into three groups. Group one was showed a video of a child hitting a bobo doll and get rewarded, group two was shown a video of a bobo doll being hit by a child and the child was punished, and group three was shown a kid hitting a bobo doll and no one was making any reaction to the kid’s behavior. After the videos were over, Albert Bandura gave all the children sticks and bobo dolls. He noticed that most of the kids of group one were hitting the bobo doll, the kids of group two were not hitting it, and the kids of group three were mostly divided. We can conclude of this that kids are severely influenced by punishment and reward. Albert Bandura concluded a social theory out of this, it consists of four steps: 1 – Attention 2 – Retention (memorizing the seen behavior) 3 – Trying the behavior (production of the behavior) 4 – Develop Motivation (a sense of pleasure) And thus Albert Bandura was able t
