Bandura et al. (Aggression)

Question 1

Social Learning

Answer 1

The theory is an approach to child development that states that children develop through learning from others around them.

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

To demonstrate that if children were witnesses to an aggressive display by an adult they would imitate aggressive behavior when given the opportunity.

Question 3

Hypotheses

Answer 3

“…subjects exposed to aggressive models will reproduce aggressive acts resembling those of the models…”

“…the observation of non-aggressive models will have a generalised inhibiting effect on the subject’s subsequent behaviour…”

“…subjects will imitate the behaviour of a same-sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex…”

“…boys will be more predisposed than girls towards imitating aggression…”

Question 4

Method

Answer 4

Room 1: Potato prints and picture stickers, table and chair set, tinker toy set, mallet, and 5-foot Bobo doll.

Room 2: Fire engine, locomotive, doll set, and spinning top.

Room 3: One-way mirror for observations, mallet, peg board, two dart guns, tetherball with face, tea set, three bears, cars, farm animals, ball, crayons, and coloring book.

Question 5

Procedure

Answer 5

1. Children were tested individually. Children were brought to a room were they were watched by the observer.
   Non-aggressive: The model ignored the Bobo doll and other aggression toys.
   Aggressive: The model began with the tinker toy before turning to the Bobo doll, displaying aggression.
2. The child was taken to a room with relatively attractive toys.
3. Then the child was taken to the next room to play with any of the toys in there. The experimenter stayed in the room otherwise a number of children would either refuse to stay alone, or would leave before termination of the session.

Question 6

Sample

Answer 6

• 36 boys and girls
• Age from 3-5 years

Question 7

Materials

Answer 7

Room 1: Potato prints and picture stickers, table and chair set, tinker toy set, mallet, and 5-foot Bobo doll.

Room 2: Fire engine, locomotive, doll set, and spinning top.

Room 3: One-way mirror for observations, mallet, peg board, two dart guns, tetherball with face, tea set, three bears, cars, farm animals, ball, crayons, and coloring book.

Question 8

Conclusion

Answer 8

Behavior that is observed is likely to be imitated.

Question 9

Independent Variables

Answer 9

1. Aggressive role model, non-aggressive role model, and no role model.
2. Gender of model.
3. Gender of child.