Bandura

Question 1

What was the predominant thought at this time about the effects on children seeing adult behaviour?

Answer 1

Previous research suggested that children will imitate behaviour of an adult models but only when the adult was still present
There was also a belief that watching aggressive behaviour would lower someones agressive drive through a process called catharsis

Question 2

What was the aim of banduras study?

Answer 2

See whether children would imitate adult behaviour when given the oppotunity, even if they saw these behaviours in a different eviornment and the original ‘model’ they observed performing the behaviour was no longer present. It was agressive behaviour that Bandura was interested in

Question 3

4 specific hypotheses of the study?

Answer 3

1. Subjects exposed to agressive models would reproduce agressive acts resebling those of their models
2. Observation of non agressive models would have a generalised inhibiting effect on the subjects subsequent behaviour
3. Subjects would imitate the behaviour of a same sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex
4. Boys should be more pre disposed (inclined) than girls towards imitating agression

Question 4

What was the sample?

Answer 4

72 children
36 girls
36 boys

37-69 months (3-5 years)
Stanford uni nursery

Question 5

How were the ppts obtained?

Answer 5

Oppotunity sampling, children from the nursery used

Question 6

What were the children matched on?

Answer 6

Matched ppts design:
Matched on levels of agression

Question 7

How did Bandura know what the childrens prior levels of agression were?

Answer 7

Nursery teacher and an adult tried t get best matched scores, each child was given an overall rating and then put into groups of 3
They showed a high level of agreement (inter rater relaibility- 89% agreement)

Question 8

How did B allocate children to different conditions of experiment?

Answer 8

Physical agression
Verbal agression
Agression towards inanimate objects
Agression inhibition (stopping themselves from being agressive when provoked)

Question 9

One advantage of matched pts design?

Answer 9

Made the test more accurate
Any agression shown with differenced were due to the model not their own personality

Question 10

One disadvantage with matched ppts design?

Answer 10

Time consuming and difficult

Question 11

IV’s in this study?

Answer 11

Sex of the child
Gender of the model
Behaviour of model

Question 12

What were the different model conditions?

Answer 12

Agressive male model
Agressive female model
Non agressive male
Non agressive female
No model

Question 13

Results of banduras story

Answer 13

Boys watching an agressive male model gave 25.8 agressive acts vs only 1.5 agressive acts when watching a non agressive male
Boys who saw an agressive male model showed a mean of 25.8 physical acts but an agressive female model they showed 12.4 agressive acts
Boys showed on average 38.2 imitate physicl agressive acts and girls only 12.7