The Development of a Reliable and Valid Treatment Program for Aggressive Young Children

摘要: In the early 1960s, a small group of professors and graduate students associated with University Oregon Child Clinical Psychology Program began conducting experiments on childhood aggression. Involved were tightly controlled laboratory studies automated Bobo dolls (life-size rubber clowns) that children pummeled, kicked, gouged, tackled. We showed aggression was imitated could be increased by praise approval (see Patterson [1]). At one point, generous colleague gave us few hundred dollars stipulation funds expended within next weeks. There not time to design new study complete it in amount time. decided instead send observers out nursery school see if they observe imitation taking place or determine expressed for Neither phenomenon observed. This tiny pilot demonstrated theories meticulously supported findings had little relevance real world. On playground is victim assault who reinforces preschool boys' [2]. The aspiring bully reinforced getting what he wants from those dominates.