Bandura, Ross and Ross 1963

Question 1

why was a seccond adaptation the study carried out?-

Answer 1

• influence of the media on behaviour
• a recent incident where a boys was serious knifed during a re-enactment of a scene from the movie a rebel without a cause demonstrated the possible influence of the media on behaviour.

Question 2

what several hypotheses were said about this study?

Answer 2

• the more remote the media was from reality the less likely the participants would be to mimic the behaviour
• males would immitate more aggressive behaviour than females
• ## those with anxiety regarding aggression would display less aggressive behaviour

Question 3

how many boys and girls were used in this study?

Answer 3

48 boys and 48 girls

Question 4

where were the participants from?

Answer 4

Stanford nursery school

Question 5

what was the age range of the ptps ?

Answer 5

35-69 months

Question 6

how many models were present?

Answer 6

two adults male and female and the human-film agression condition.

Question 7

what design was used?

Answer 7

matched pairs design.

Question 8

how were the ptps divided?

Answer 8

divided into three experimental groups and one control group (24 in each group)

Question 9

what three experimental conditions were there?

Answer 9

1. real-life aggressive models
2. same models but on a film - human
3. aggressive cartoon characters.
   - they were then divided into same sex and opposite sex models.

Question 10

what was the control group?

Answer 10

24 ptps were not exposed to any aggressive model,.

Question 11

what did the real life condition do?

Answer 11

• same as bandura ross and ross 1961

Question 12

what was the human-film condition?

Answer 12

they were guided into a semi-darkened room and left to play with picture prints on a table 6ft away from a tv that played the film which was ten mins long this was left to play well the experimenter left.

Question 13

what was the cartoon conditon?

Answer 13

• semi-darkened room
• playing on a tabel 3ft away from the TV and as the experimenter walked over to the TV he says “i guess i’ll turn the colour TV on”
• the cartoon was a black cat in a colourful fantasyland where he displayed aggressive behaviour to the bobodoll.

Question 14

how were the participants aggressively stimulated

Answer 14

the same as experiment 1

Question 15

what happened after the exposure to aggressive arousal?

Answer 15

they were taken to another room and observed for 20 mins through a one-way mirror and their behaviour was recorded in 5 sec intervals

Question 16

mean scores for each condition?

Answer 16

reallife = 83
human-film = 92
cartoon film = 99
control = 54

Question 17

reliability?

Answer 17

yes, replicated the study and found similar resutls

- hight inter-observer reliability = 0.90

Question 18

validity?

Answer 18

validity is maintained due to finding high inter-rater reliability which means the observations and research recorded was not bias or subjective.

Question 19

ecological validity?

Answer 19

• limited as the participants were in an unnatural setting
• semi darkened room and by an experimenter they had never met before
• therefore the bhaviour they displayed may not be an accurate representation of their true actions.