Bandura Flashcards
Aim?
To investigate a variety of factors influencing imitative leaning
Prompted by?
The social learning their
Participants?
72
How many females in study?
36
How many males in study?
36
What kind of sample was it?
Opportunity sample
Where was the study?
Stanford University nursery
IV?
The level of aggression displayed by a model giving rise to an ‘aggressive condition’ and a ‘non-aggressive condition’
Other IV?
sex of model
DV?
Number of imitative learning behaviours, through physical and verbal aggression and other non-imitative verbal and physical aggression
Hypothesis 1?
Children exposes to aggressive model will produce more aggressive acts than those exposed to non-aggressive model or control groups
Hypothesis 2?
Non-aggressive model will in habit aggressive responses
How many children saw the aggressive models?
24
How many saw the same sex model?
6
How many saw the opposite sex?
6
How many didn’t see non aggressive models?
24
Stage 1 for non aggressive?
Model ignored
Stage 1 aggressive?
Aggressive to doll; hit on head and verbal ‘sock him on the nose’
Stage 2?
All children got their toys taken away from them
Stage 3?
All test for delayed imitation and observed every 5 seconds for 20 mins
Results boys and girls?
Boys were more likely to imitate physical aggression while girls were more likely to imitate verbal aggression
Result?
Participants exposed to aggressive models show higher levels of aggressive imitative behaviour
