Bandura (1961)

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To demonstrate that if children were passive witnesses to an aggressive display by an adult they would imitate this aggressive behaviour when given the opportunity

Question 2

Hypotheses

Answer 2

1. Children exposed to aggressive models will reproduce aggressive acts resembling those of models
2. Children exposed to non aggressive models will reproduce aggressive acts
3. Children will imitate the behaviour of a same sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex
4. Boys will be more predisposed than girls towards imitating aggression

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

Method was a laboratory experiment
Tested 36 boys and 36 girls between 37 - 69 months
Design of the experiment has three major conditions, control, aggressive and non aggressive group