Bandura Flashcards
What were the children matched on?
Matched on aggression rating
What was the first Phase and what happened?
The modelling phase. A child goes in a room with an adult who is either aggressive or not aggressive towards a bobo doll
State one of the standardised verbal acts?
Pow
Hit him down
What was the name of phase two and what happened?
Aggression Arousal Phase
The child was moved to a room full of beautiful toys. For the first two minutes they could play, they were then told they could not play with them because they were for other children
What toys were in the room in the imitation stage?
Mallet, Tetherball, Teaset, Animal toys, dart gun, bobo doll, drawing things
What did the experimenter behind the one way mirror do?
Record what the child was doing every 5 seconds
How did they ensure high inter-rater reliabilty
The observer behind the mirror did not know what condition the child was in
How many of the non aggressive condition had an aggression score of 0
70%
What condition were the most aggressive?
The Aggressive Condition
What is a non-imitative response?
A response that is not directly alike what the adult did, but similar.
Name one of the non-imitative responses?
Pointed gun at bobo doll (Done by a child in the aggressive model)
Discuss the gender effects?
Boys copied physical aggression more than girls.
Both boys and girls were more likely to copy a male model
Boys copied the male model more
State a conclusion of the Bandura study?
Supports social learning theory
Behaviour is generalised to other situations
Males are more likely to imitate psychical aggression
