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The Bobo doll experiment

Social learning theory emerged from studies by Albert Bandura in the 1960s. His work focused on how people learn by observing others, and he proposed a series of experiments to test possible causes of aggressive behavior. One of the most famous was his Bobo doll...

Learning from the media

Bandura’s social learning theory and the bobo doll experiment had a special meaning for their time and sparked a debate that continues to the current day. Television and other forms of mass communication were becoming omnipresent. The extent to which adults were...

Gender development

Study of gender development and ideas of sexual and gendered identity has been largely overlooked by psychologists until recently. Until the rise of second-wave feminism in the later half of the twentieth century, psychology was largely silent about issues concerning...

The Baby X experiments

The influence of sexual stereotypes on gender development is somewhat cyclical. Adults learn about gender roles from children, and children imitate those roles based on their own biological sex. While adults treat boys and girls differently, children tend to follow...

Adolescence

One of the earliest pioneers of developmental psychology was G. Stanley Hall, who was the first psychologist to receive a doctorate in America. Hall was strongly influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution and thought that psychological development is a kind of...



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