Who carried out the Bobo doll experimental studies that established observational learning?
AHermann Ebbinghaus and his colleagues
BIvan P. Pavlov and his colleagues
CB.F. Skinner and his colleagues
DAlbert Bandura and his colleagues
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Albert Bandura and his colleagues
1. The chapter explains observational learning as the next form of learning after conditioning.
2. It also calls observational learning by an alternative name, social learning.
3. The chapter names Bandura and his colleagues as the researchers behind a series of studies.
4. Their best-known study used a Bobo doll film with three different reward conditions.
5. Hence the Bobo doll observational learning studies are by Albert Bandura.
_Source: syllabus Psychology Ch 5 "Learning", p. 86, Observational Learning_
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