However, one criticism of Bandura's experiment was that it took place in a laboratory experiment and therefore lacked in mundane realism. For example, the activity involved children being in a room with toy guns, hammers and a bobo doll which they may be unused to at home. In particular, girls are unlikely, due to gender stereotypes, to engage with these toys. As a result, the task investigate for the girls was reflective of their real lives and therefore is hard to generalise to the rest of the female population as they may react differently in the real world.