Bandura 61 Flashcards
What were the aims of Bandura’s study?
To see if children would copy an adult’s aggressive behaviour towards a Bobo doll
- To see if children were more likely to copy the aggressive behaviours of adults of the same sex
- To see if boys were more likely to copy the aggressive behaviours than girl
Who were used in the sample?
72 boys and girls with an average age of 4 years old from the same university nursery
What participant design was used?
Matched pairs- on natural aggression rated by teacher, matched in triplets with one for each condition
What were the 3 different conditions?
1) Control group
2) Aggressive model
3) Non-aggressive model
What were the 3 IVs?
1) Condition children were exposed to
2) Gender of the child
3) Gender of the adult
What were the DVs?
1) Number of physical aggressive acts displayed including imitative and nonimitative
2) Number of verbal aggressive acts displayed
What type of study is this?
A structured observation
What happened in stage 1?
The children were exposed to either the aggressive model who attacked bobo and showed verbal aggression e.g. pow or they watched the non-aggressive model e.g. potatoe printing
What happened in stage 2?
The children had their aggression aroused by being in another room with nice toys and then told they couldn’t use them
What happened in stage 3?
They were observed in a playroom with Bobo through a two-way mirror every 5s for 20m looking at their aggressive and non-aggressive behaviours
What were the results of Bandura’s study?
Seeing aggressive model increased agg
-Non-Agg model decreased agg (0.2 & 1.5 Vs 2.0)
-Boys imitated more physically aggressive acts than girls. (25.6 Vs 7.2)
-No diff in verbal agg between boys and girls. (13.7 Vs 12.7)
-Male model more influential for physical agg
give an evaluation of the generalisablity of the study
Used a sample of 72 boys and girls. This does not represent how adults would observe and reproduce behaviour of their role models due to being significantly different in context to the role models of children AND opportunity sample from the same nursery so might have shared characteristics effecting their aggression
Evaluate the reliability using 2 high points.
High as standardised procedure such as observing children at 5 second intervals for 20 mins making the study accurately replicable to test for consistency of results AND High inter-rater as it included 2 observers who agreed 89% of the time which removes subjectivity and makes the results objective
What is good about using a matched pairs design in Bandura?
Their natural aggression was accounted for meaning this didn’t impact on the aggression they showed after watching the model
Evaluate the validity using the Bobo doll in this experiment
Low as children may have hit Bobo as that is the purpose of the toy. Therefore no cause and effect could be established because they thought that was how you play with it rather than actually being aggressive
