Briefly describe the aspects of observational learning and psychologist Albert Bandura's study through which he demonstrated the ability of models to stimulate learning.
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According to psychologist Albert Bandura and colleagues, a major part of human learning consists of observational learning, which is learning by watching the behavior of another person, or model. Because of its reliance on observation of others-a social phenomenon-the perspective taken by Bandura is often referred to as a social cognitive approach to learning. Bandura dramatically demonstrated the ability of models to stimulate learning in a classic experiment. In the study, young children saw a film of an adult wildly hitting a five-foot-tall inflatable punching toy called a Bobo doll. Later the children were given the opportunity to play with the Bobo doll themselves, and, sure enough, most displayed the same kind of behavior, in some cases mimicking the aggressive behavior almost identically. Observational learning is central to a number of important issues relating to the extent to which people learn simply by watching the behavior of others.
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