Bandura Flashcards
What was the aim of Banduras study?
To demonstrate that if children were passive witnesses to an aggressive display of an adult they would imitate this behaviour when given the opportunity.
What were the 4 hypotheses?
1) children exposed to the aggressive models will reproduce aggressive acts resembling those of the models
2) children exposed to non aggressive will produce less aggressive acts
3) children will imitate behaviour of same sex model to a greater degree
4) boys will be more predisposed than girls to imitating aggression
Who were the participants and how were they split up?
36 boys and 36 girls (mean age 52 months)
Split into 3 conditions, aggressive, non aggressive and control
These were further subdivided into same sex boy, opposite sex boy, same sex girl and opposite sex girl
What were the 3 IVs?
Condition, sex of role model, sex of child
What method is this study?
Lab experiment with 3 major conditions… Subdivided into 4 further on each
What were children matched on before the study?
Matched pair design, on 5 point scale of
Physical aggression
Verbal aggression
Aggression towards inanimate objects
Aggression inhibition
What was stage 1 of the experiment?
Children were brought to the experiment room by experimenter and model. The room was set out for play. In 1 corner there was small table and chair potato prints. Model taken to other side of room with tinker toy, mallet, Bobo doll.
In aggressive model was aggressive to bobo in a distinctive way
Eg. Pommled head with mallet, verbal; pow, sock him in the nose
In non aggressive they ignored bobo and played with tinker toys
After 10 mIns experimenter entered and took them to next room
What was stage 2 of this study?
Children were objected to mild aggression arosal. Taken to room with attractive toys, variety of toys as soon as played told they were saved for very best children
What was stage3 of this study?
Children were taken to the next room where they could play with any toys, there was variety of toys children stayed for 20 mins, judged through 1way mirror. Observations made at 5 second intervals therefore giving 240 response units for each child
What were the response measures?
Imitation of physical aggression (eg punching in nose)
Initiative verbal aggression (pow, sock him in the nose)
Imitative non verbal aggression
Also looked for mallet aggression and sits on bobo - not aggressive towards it
3 aggressive that weren’t carried out
Punches bobo
Non imitative physical and verbal aggression
Aggressive gun play
What was the background of Bandura?
Effects of observing aggression. Social learning theory is where children develop through learning from other people, they emphases the role of observation and imitation of models.
This is split into classical and operant conditioning, behaviourists explain behaviour by studying others who can be objectively measured
