Bandura et al

Question 1

aim?

Answer 1

to investigate observational learning of aggression by seeing whether children would reproduce aggressive behaviour when the model was no longer present, and to look for gender differences in learning of aggression

Question 2

4 hypotheses tested?

Answer 2

1. participants exposed to an aggressive model would be more likely to reproduce similar aggression than those exposed to a non aggressive model and those who didnt see a model at all
2. participants exposed to a non aggressive model would be less aggressive than those not exposed to a model at all
3. participants would imitate aggression modelled by a same sex adult more than that modelled by an opposite sex adult
4. boys would be more inclined than girls to imitate aggression

Question 3

sample?

Answer 3

72 participants; 36 male and 36 female selected from the nursery school of Stanford university with ages ranged from 37 months to 69 months

Question 4

experimental design?

Answer 4

independent measures

Question 5

experimental method?

Answer 5

lab experiment

Question 6

3 IV’s?

Answer 6

the behaviour of the model
the sex of the model
the sex of the children