Bandura:✅

Question 1

How many pps??

Answer 1

• 72 (36 females, 36 males)

- selected from Stanford Uni Nursery

Question 2

What does imitative aggression mean?

Answer 2

Physical and verbal aggression

Question 3

What does partially imitative aggression mean??

Answer 3

Similar to model’s behaviour

Question 4

What does Non- imitative aggression mean??

Answer 4

New aggression shown that was not modelled.

Question 5

Conclusions/ results:

Answer 5

• children who witnessed aggressive model= more aggressive
• overall, little difference in aggression between control group and non- aggressive model group
• boys were more physically aggressive than girls, girls more verbally aggressive (female model)

Boys were more likely to imitate male model than the girls

Question 6

Age of pps:

Answer 6

37-69 months

Question 7

Sampling method:

Answer 7

Opportunistic, children also ranked on aggression scale (0-5) with help from teacher

Question 8

What type of design was used?

Answer 8

Independent measures

7 different conditions

Question 9

What were the 7 different conditions:

Answer 9

Aggressive model
Non-aggressive model 
No model
Same sex model (x2)
Difference sex model (x2)

Question 10

Where were the children sampled from?

Answer 10

Stanford university nursery

Question 11

How was aggressive arousal measured?

Answer 11

Children taken to a different room with more exciting toys, after 2 mins children were told that the toys were only for “the very best children”

Question 12

How was delayed imitation tested for?

Answer 12

Children were observed for 20 mins whilst experimenter sat in room and did paper work and 2 observers looked through

Question 13

+ points:

Answer 13

• lab
• good reliability- matching children on aggression
• inter- rated reliability
• application- children are likely to imitate aggression (domestic violence)

Question 14

• points:

Answer 14

• children witnessing aggression
• difficult to generalise sample
• children (ethics)