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Modal verbs - A2

because the concern is that the little kids can pick up

your bad behavior or maybe learn a choice

that children can observe your bad behavior

And there's a psychologist who studied this

And this is actually a very famous psychological experiment

And the Bobo doll experiment is a pretty famous

hear cited sometimes when people are having the debate of

whether or not they should ban violent video games.

For those of you who don't know, a Bobo doll

is basically a blow-up doll that you can punch.

Now, I don't know if kids still play with these things

And this is pretty much the cream of the crop

So this is an inflatable doll that people called Bobo doll

So the way the experiment worked was they

Except, in the middle of it, suddenly a man

appeared and proceeded to start punching and hitting

And not only was he being aggressive physically

towards this doll, he was also shouting hit it, kick it.

just pummeling this doll to a bloody pulp, if you could

say that about an inflatable doll, all the while yelling

And some of the children observed this behavior.

And other ones, it didn't really phase them.

They were just so into their arts-and-crafts project

that I guess it really didn't matter much to them.

So after the 10 minutes passed, the man left.

So the researchers were kind of mean about this.

And what they did was they gave these kids an impossible puzzle

So they knew that that would cause frustration.

brought to a room where it was filled with toys.

So maybe here's a balloon, here's a cool teddy bear.

And of course in the room was this Bobo doll,

the very same one that that man had beat up for 10 minutes.

was many of the children would actually come up to the doll

And not only were a lot of them hitting it,

the ones that were hitting it were often yelling

can learn through observing the way people behave.

So as you might imagine, oftentimes you'll

let kids see violent movies because this experiment showed

that children can indeed learn through observing behavior.

But learning a behavior and performing a behavior

Many of the kids were aggressive towards the doll

and yelled the same things that the man had yelled.

And so you could say, all right, so the majority of kids, yes,

But not all of the kids were aggressive towards the doll.

I mean all the kids didn't learn this aggressive behavior.

How come they didn't behave the same way towards the doll?

Did they maybe not learn that aggressive behavior?

that was fairly similar to the one I just described.

So in this next experiment, what they did was

And I don't know, I bet back then TVs had bunny ears.

So on this TV, the kids saw a Bobo doll and someone being

aggressive towards the Bobo doll, also yelling hit it,

But the difference here was that the video showed afterwards

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