 Albert Bandura was born in December  He was born in Mundare, Alberta, Canada.  He is a psychologist specializing in social cognitive theory and self- efficacy.  He is most famous for his social learning theory.

 Bandura graduated with a B.A. from the University of British Columbia with the Bolocan Award in psychology, and then obtained his M.A. in 1951 and Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Iowa. Arthur Benton was his academic adviser at Iowa.

 Upon graduation, he participated in a clinical internship with the Wichita Kansas Guidance Center. The following year, he accepted a teaching position at Stanford University in 1953, which he still holds today. In 1974 the American Psychological Association elected him to its presidency.

 Bandura was initially influenced by Robert Sears' work on familial antecedents of social behavior and identificatory learning, Bandura directed his initial research to the role of social modeling in human motivation, thought, and action. In collaboration with Richard Walters, his first doctoral student, Bandura engaged in studies of social learning and aggression.

 Their joint efforts illustrated the critical role of modeling in human behavior and led to a program of research into the determinants and mechanisms of observational learning (part of which has become known in the history of psychology as the "Bobo doll experiment"). The program also led to Bandura's first book, Adolescent Aggression in 1959.

 Adolescent Aggression  Principles of behavior modification  Psychological modeling; conflicting theories  Self-efficacy  Social learning and personality development  Social foundations of thought and action

 The Bobo doll experiment was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 and studied patterns of behavior associated with aggression.  Bandura hoped that the experiment would prove that aggression can be explained, at least in part, by social learning theory. The theory of social learning would state that that behavior such as aggression is learned through observing and imitating the others

 The experiment is important because it sparked many more studies about the effects that viewing violence had on children. Especially studies in to the effects of playing violent video games on young children and how it may effect their behavior in later life.

 For the experiment each child was exposed to the scenario individually so the would not be distracted by classmates. The first part of the experiment involved bringing a child and the adult model into a playroom. In the playroom, the child was seated in one corner filled with sutff like crayon and stickers and the adult model was seated in another corner containing a toy set, a mallet, and an inflatable Bobo doll

 Before leaving the room, the experimenter explained to the child that the toys in the adult corner were only for the adult to play with.

 After a minute of playing with the toy set, the adult in the aggressive model scenario would attack the Bobo doll by hitting it. The mallet was also used to continually hit the Bobo doll on the head. After a period of about 10 minutes, the experimenter came back into the room, dismissed the adult model, and took the child into another playroom.

 The non-aggressive adult model simply played with the small toys for the entire 10 minute-period. In this situation, the Bobo doll was completely ignored by the model then the child was taken out of the room.

 The final stage of the experiment took place in a room in which the child was left alone for 20 minutes with a series of aggressive and non-aggressive toys to play with. A Bobo doll, a mallet, dart gun were among the aggressive toys to choose from.

The nonaggressive toys were a tea set, paper and crayons, a ball, two dolls, cars and trucks, and plastic farm animals. Judges watched each child behind a one- way mirror and evaluated the subject based on various measures of aggressive behavior.

 The first measure recorded was based on physical aggression. This included punching or kicking the Bobo doll, sitting on the Bobo doll, hitting it with a mallet, and tossing it around the room. Verbal aggression was the second measure. The judges counted each time the children imitated the aggressive adult model and recorded their results.

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 Bandura found that 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 mode This experiment also determined that boy are usually more aggressive then girls. Children imitate what the adult models do even though it is a wrong thing.

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