Bandura

Question 1

key theme + area

Answer 1

key theme =
area = develo0pmental

Question 2

background

Answer 2

can kids learn aggressive behaviour from watching TV

Question 3

aim

Answer 3

To investigate if aggressive behaviour can be learnt in children by imitating an aggressive role model.

Question 4

sample

Answer 4

• 36 Boys and 36 Girls attending Stanford Uni nursery school.
• Mean age of 4 years and 4 months.
• 8 experimental groups, each with 6 children and a control group of 24
  children.
• opportunity sampling

Question 5

design

Answer 5

children rated before hand by teachers whilst player, on a 4 point scale;
- verbal aggression
- physical aggression
- aggression towards inanimate objects
- aggressive inhibition
based on the rating the children arranged in triplets and assigned at random to one of 3 groups
- therefore a matched pairs design

Question 6

IV

Answer 6

• The behaviour of the model – aggressive and non-aggressive
• The gender of the model
• Gender of the child

Question 7

DV

Answer 7

• Observations of demonstrated behaviour from the child.
• Imitative aggressive responses, Partially imitative and Non-imitative aggressive responses.

Question 8

conditions

Answer 8

• Control Group – no model
• Observed male aggressive model
• Observed female aggressive model
• Observed male non-aggressive model
• Observed female non-aggressive model

Question 9

procedure

Answer 9

1) Group 1 were taken to a room with toys where they observed an
adult model behaving aggressively. Group 2 taken to same room with toys where they observed
adult behaving non-aggressively.
Control group – No model
2) All groups then taken to a room with nice toys allowed to play for
2 minutes and then told not allowed = mild aggression arousal.
3) Each individual child then taken to a room with toys and observed:
Imitative aggressive responses, Partially imitative responses,
Non-imitative aggressive responses

Question 10

controls

Answer 10

• Same Bobo doll and other toys
• Same aggressive / passive behaviour observed
• Same length of time for aggressive modelling
• Each child had 20 minutes for stage 3
• Each child subjected to same stage 2
• Children assessed beforehand for aggressive rating.

Question 11

method used

Answer 11

mix o flab and observation

Question 12

results
mean number of imitative physical aggressive acts

Answer 12

aggressive female model;
G = 5.5, B = 12.4
aggressive male model;
G = 7.2, B = 25.8
non-aggressive female model;
G = 2.5, B = 0.2
non-aggressive male model;
G = 0.0, B = 1.5
control (no model);
G = 1.2, B = 2.0

Question 13

results
Mean number of imitative verbal
aggressive acts

Answer 13

aggressive female model;
G = 13.7, B = 4.3
aggressive male model;
G = 2.0, B = 12.7
non-aggressive female model;
G = 0.3, B = 1.1
non-aggressive male model;
G = 0.0, B = 0.0
control (no model);
G = 0.7, B = 1.7

Question 14

conclusions

Answer 14

• Supports observing behaviour
  causes imitation
• It moves on from Skinners operant conditioning that behaviour will only be imitated with a reward.
• There was no rewards given in this
  study, but imitation was still seen.

Question 15

vicarious laerning

Answer 15

when behaviour is learned through observing the behaviour of others

Question 16

social learning theory

Answer 16

idea that we can learn through observing the behaviour of others and we do not have to copy behaviour to learn it