Dear Readers
If you have not heard of Bobo Doll Experiment, you can click on http://youtu.be/hHHdovKHDNU to view the video.
In psychology of learning, there are many phenomena and theories that explain how we acquire our knowledge. The traditions are nativism and empiricism. Nativism is a perspective that our abilities and behavioral tendencies are mainly inborn. Empiricism believes that our knowledge comes from our experiences. Nature versus nurture has been an arguable topic for ages! Personally I think it is difficult to make concrete conclusion on this issue.
Among all theories of learning, I wish to share with you the social learning theory in which one of the experiments carried out was the Bobo Doll Experiment. It was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961 to study the patterns of behavior associated with aggression.
From the experiment, Bandura derives three important aspects. Firstly, how aggressive patterns of behavior are achieved; secondly, what provokes people to behave aggressively and thirdly, what determines if they will behave aggressively in the future circumstances.
It is very obvious that children learn by observing adults' behaviors. We call it monkey see, monkey do. Children learn either personally, through media, from families or their living environment. Media has definitely induced violent behavior in children who are also increasingly exposed to violent and aggressive video/internet games that allow much of their interaction and participation.
Isn't it time for us to be more conscious and careful about what our children are exposed to daily? Shouldn't we pay more attention to the usage of computers and televisions that they are engaging? We may not think it is a big issue but as time passes, and when the children are behind bars, the feeling of regret and sorrow will only be surpassed by our remorse.
2 comments:
It's a great sharing! In our Christianity teaching, as a parent we have to be very strict on selecting movies, TV programme and compute games for our children. Sometimes children will complain why are they not allowed to see certain popular movie but other non-christian children are allowed. I guess what you have learn from your course is very much in line with our Bible teaching. But when come to practice it's a totally different story, sometimes parents themselve are not practising and sometimes is only one sided, like mother is the only one trying to practice, father thinks it's ok. I believe it's important to know the theory first then try to put it into practice. Daily prayer is the reminder to make our practice sucessful.
Proper guidance from parents are critical to the upbringing of children and it varies from families to families. It is difficult to define right or wrong methods but only the approaches may vary for the same result.
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