The most renowned psychological early research study of children’s television usage and aggressive behaviour was Albert Bandura’s Bobo doll studies. Bandura designed the Bobo doll experiment to try and demonstrate the prospective of children copying aggressive behaviour observed from another person. This is referred to as a ‘model’ and the point of the study was to see if the violence that children observe on television, movies and video games affected how social learning operates through exposure to a particular behaviour. (Bandura, 1974) Bandura conducted the experiment with the involvement of ninety-six children aged between three and six. There were an equal number of girls and boys and the children were split in to four groups each accommodating twenty-four children. Each child was put into one of four groups to see if gender had any influence on the aggressive behaviour observed. Children were chosen for this particular study because they have less social conditioning; they have also had less instruction and teaching of the rules of society than adult subjects. (Shuttleworth, 2010.)…show more content… The children were then left in the playroom and had a variety of toys. The first group of children witnessed a film of an adult performing a novel aggressive act towards an inflated Bobo doll and the physical aggression was accompanied by novel, hostile remarks. Bandura later measured how much of this modelled aggression the children had learned just by watching the measurement of the learning of aggression users simulated targets rather than live ones. The model pummelled the doll with the mallet, flung it in the air, kicked it repeatedly, threw it down and beat it. At the time this research was conducted it was widely believed that seeing others vent aggression would drain the viewer’s aggressive