... aggressive towards the doll. The children were then taken into a room with a Bobo doll and a mallet, and they too began hitting the doll and used many of the same verbal terms as the model used. The children who were with the non-aggressive model did not hit the Bobo doll, and showed no aggression. This shows strong evidence that children are likely to copy behaviour which they would unlikely produce otherwise. Although the experiment did show strong evidence that children are likely to copy behaviour, the experiment does have some negative points. The experiment was completed under artificial conditions, therefore it lacks ecological validity. The results therefore cannot be generalized to real life situations. The experiment was also completely unethical as Bandura conditioned these young children to new ways of aggression that they had not known before, and he did not get consent from the children's parents. ...

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