Bandura

Question 1

how many participants were used and where were they from?

Answer 1

72 (36 boys and girls) from Stanford university nursery school.

Question 2

What ages were the participants?

Answer 2

between 3 and 5.

mean age of 4.4 years.

Question 3

What was the research method?

Answer 3

Lab

Question 4

What was research design?

Answer 4

Independent measures

Question 5

How many children were in each condition?

Answer 5

24

Question 6

what are the 3 conditions

Answer 6

Aggressive, non-aggressive and control

Question 7

each condition had 4 sub-condition what are they?

Answer 7

6 boys with opposite sex model
6 boys with same sex model
6 girls with same sex model
6 girls with opposite sex model

Question 8

How long were children in room 1?

Answer 8

10 minutes

Question 9

How long were children in room 2?

Answer 9

2 minutes

Question 10

How long were children in room 3?

Answer 10

20 minutes

Question 11

what items were in room 1?

Answer 11

small table and chair, potato prints and picture stickers.

Question 12

what did the model do when they went into the room?

Answer 12

Adult model went to the opposite corner of the room where there was a small table table, chair , tinker toy set, a mallet and a 5ft bobo doll.

Question 13

What did the model do in non-aggressive condition?

Answer 13

model ignored the bobo doll and assembled the tinker toys in a “QUIET AND GENTLE MANNER”

Question 14

what did the model do in the aggressive condition?

Answer 14

Model began assembling tinker toys, but after 1 minute turned to bobo and was aggressive to the doll in a very “STYLISED AND DISTINCTIVE WAY”

Question 15

What was the physical aggression used?

Answer 15

RAISED THE BOBO DOLL AND POMMELED HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A MALLET

Question 16

what was the verbal aggression used?

Answer 16

POW

SOCK HIM IN THE NOSE

Question 17

What happened in room 2?

Answer 17

Child taken to a room with attractive toys. As soon as they started to play with them. The experimenter told the child that these toys were reserved for the other children.

Question 18

What were children subjected to in room 2?

Answer 18

“mild aggression arousal”

Question 19

What happened in room 3?

Answer 19

Room filled with both aggressive and non aggressive toys and children were observed every 5 SECONDS, giving 240 response units per child.

Question 20

What sampling was used

Answer 20

time

Question 21

What non-aggressive toys were in room 3 ?

Answer 21

Tea set, crayons, three bear and plastic farm animals

Question 22

What aggressive toys were used in room 3?

Answer 22

Malet, peg board, dart guns and a 3ft bobo doll.

Question 23

What are dependent variables?

Answer 23

Imitative aggression- This is aggression that directly copies the model in room 1.
Partially- imitative aggression: This includes using the mallet on other toys or sitting on bobo. Similar to aggression used i room 1.
Non- imitative aggression: This includes punching bobo in new ways, saying hostile things not said by the model.
No aggression

Question 24

What are the independent variables?

Answer 24

Behavior of the model: aggressive, non aggressive / control.
Sex of the model: (male & female) half children saw male model and saw female model.
Sex of child: boy/girl

Question 25

what were the children tested on before the study began, who did this and why were they matched?

Answer 25

Pretested on aggression, nursery teacher and experimenter observed them on a 1-5 point rating scale on physical and verbal aggression.

Question 26

Name one finding

Answer 26

Children in model condition were more aggressive than children in non aggressive condition

Question 27

Name a second finding

Answer 27

male models have more of an impact on boys compared to female models on girls.

Question 28

Name a third finding

Answer 28

boys imitate more physical aggression than girls , however didn’t differ in verbal aggression.