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In the experimental conditions children were individually shown into a room containing toys and played with some potato prints and pictures in a corner for 10 minutes while either:
1. 24 children (12 boys and 12 girls) watched a male or female model behaving aggressively towards a toy called a 'Bobo doll'. The adults attacked the Bobo doll in a distinctive manner - they used a hammer in some cases, and in others threw the doll in the air and shouted "Pow, Boom".
2. Another 24 children (12 boys and 12 girls) were exposed to a non-aggressive model who played in a quiet and subdued manner for 10 minutes (playing with a tinker toy set and ignoring the bobo-doll).
3. The final 24 children (12 boys and 12 girls) were used as a control group and not exposed to any model at all.

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The Bobo Beatdown: Crash Course Psychology #12

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http://www.simplypsychology.org/bobo-doll.html

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Hypotheses
The researchers made the following 4 predictions:
"...subjects exposed to aggressive models will reproduce aggressive acts resembling those of the models..."
"...the observation of non-aggressive models will have a generalised inhibiting effect on the subject's subsequent behaviour..."
"...subjects will imitate the behaviour of a same-sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex..."

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There are two main advantage of this experimental method. Firstly, experiments can be replicated. Standardized procedures and instrcutions were used. Secondly, it allows for precise control of variables. Many variables were controlled such as the gender of the model, the age of the participant, and the time the children observed the model.

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Children learn social behaviour such as aggression through the process of observation learning - through watching behaviour of another person

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The findings support Bandura's Social Learning Theory. That is, children learn social behavior such as aggression through the process of observation learning, it also has important implications for the effects of media violence on children.

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It was a lab study so it lacked ecological validity. Also there where ethical issues because people believed that the participants could experience long term effects.

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Results:                      The participants mirrored what they saw from the adults. Kids exposed to violence towards the bobo doll would copy what they saw. 

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Results:                      The participants mirrored what they saw from the adults. Kids exposed to violence towards the bobo doll would copy what they saw. 

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Bandura 1961 conducted a
study to investigate if social behaviors such as aggression can be acquired by
observation.

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Bandura 1961 conducted a
study to investigate if social behaviors such as aggression can be acquired by
observation.