A common criticism of Bandura et al.’s (1961) Bobo doll experiment is that the children may have shown demand characteristics, copying the aggression simply because they believed they were expected to do so.
Explain one improvement that could be made to the procedure of this study to reduce the influence of demand characteristics.
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