Crash Course Psychology #12: The Bobo Beatdown (Modeling) by Teach Simple

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Fifteen short-answer questions accompany the Crash Course Psychology episode on Albert Bandura's Bobo doll experiment, in which children who watched an adult attack an inflatable clown were more likely to imitate the aggression themselves. Questions move from the experiment's specifics (what Bandura studied, what the children did) to the broader concepts it introduced — social-cognitive learning, classical and operant conditioning, and how Bandura's findings challenged pure behaviorist views that treated learning as conditioning alone. A complete teacher answer key with a full-sentence response for all 15 questions is included.

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Crash Course Psychology Modeling Worksheets provide an engaging 15-question guide for the popular Crash Course video on modeling experiments like the classic Bobo doll study. Students explore key concepts in social learning theory through thought-provoking questions aligned to the fast-paced YouTube video. The informative 2-page worksheet facilitates individual or whole-class learning and includes an answer key for teacher reference. Educators can implement this supplemental resource for in-class discussions, independent practice, homework, or assessments on observational learning, reward pathways, imitation, cognition, and more pre-college psychology curriculum topics. The digital download integrates easily into Google Classroom and works well for remote teaching.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Summarize Bandura's Bobo doll experiment and its finding on modeled aggression
Define social-cognitive learning and distinguish it from classical and operant conditioning
Explain how Bandura's research challenged pure behaviorist views of learning

Teaching tips

Have students watch the linked episode and answer the questions in order, since later questions (conditioning, cognition's role) build on the experiment described in the earlier ones
Use question 6 (defining social-cognitive learning) as a checkpoint before moving to questions 8-10 on classical and operant conditioning, since the worksheet expects students to already distinguish the three
The included answer key allows this to be assigned as independent viewing homework, with in-class time reserved for discussion
Both the worksheet and answer key come as editable DOCX files, so the questions can be adapted or reordered if needed

Skills covered

Video-based note-taking — students extract specific facts and definitions from Episode 12 to answer 15 short-answer questions on the Bobo doll experiment.
Concept summarization — students explain social-cognitive learning, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning in their own words.
Comparative analysis — students explain how Bandura's findings challenged the dominant behaviorist view that learning is purely conditioning-based.

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What psychology concepts does this worksheet cover beyond the Bobo doll experiment itself?

It has students define social-cognitive learning, classical conditioning, and operant conditioning, and explain how Bandura's findings challenged the dominant behaviorist view that learning is solely about conditioning and reinforcement.

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Core concepts

Bandura's Bobo doll experiment
Social-cognitive learning
Classical vs. operant conditioning

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