Bandura

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

Behaviourists suggest we are born ‘tabula rasa’ and can be explained in terms of learning from the environment.
Bandura developed SLT based on behaviourist principles.

Question 2

Aims

Answer 2

1. Subjects exposed to aggressive models would reproduce aggressive acts resembling those of their models.
2. Observation of aggressive models would have a generalised aggressive effect on the subjects’ subsequent behaviour.
3. Subjects would imitate the behaviour of a same sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex
4. Boys should be more pre-disposed than girls towards imitating aggression.

Question 3

Research Method

Answer 3

Lab experiment

Question 4

Sample

Answer 4

36 boys and 36 girls from Stanford University Nursery School aged 3-6