Lab settings

• P- many of banduras ideas were developed through observations of young children's behaviour in lab settings
• E- lab studies are often criticised for their controlled nature where participants may respond to demand characteristics
• E- it has been suggested, in relation to the bobo doll research that, because the main purpose of the doll is to strike it, the children were simply behaving in the way that they thought was expected
• L- thus The research may tell us little about how children actually learn aggression in everyday life