Developmental area

Question 1

What is the Background to Bandura?

Answer 1

Previous research has shown that children will readily imitate behaviour demonstrated by an adult model.

Question 2

What was the research method for Bandura?

Answer 2

Laboratory experiment which uses an independant measures design.

Question 3

What were the IVs in Bandura?

Answer 3

• aggressive or non-aggressive model
• sex of model
• sex of the child

Question 4

What was the DV in Bandura?

Answer 4

the amount of imitative behaviour and aggression shown by the child in phase 3

Question 5

What was the sample for Bandura?

Answer 5

72 children (36 boys and girls) from Stanford University Nursery school

Question 6

What did phase 1 in Bandura consist of?

Answer 6

children were individually took into their own room and started playing with potatoes prints for 10 mins. after a minute the model turned to the bobo doll and spent the rest of the type verbally and physically abusing it.

Question 7

What did phase 2 in Bandura consist of?

Answer 7

All children were subject to mild aggression arousal. Initially allowed to play with attractive toys but they got the toys took off them.

Question 8

What did phase 3 of Bandura consist of?

Answer 8

Children took into a room that has aggressive and non-aggressive toys. Observed for 20 minutes.

Question 9

What was the key findings from Bandura?

Answer 9

Children in the aggressive condition showed more imitation of physical and verbal aggressive behaviour.

Question 10

What was a possible conclusion from Bandura?

Answer 10

• children will imitate aggressive behavior imitated by a model, even if they’re not present.
• boys tend to me more aggressive than boys

Question 11

What was the research method for Chaney?

Answer 11

Field experiment conducted in the participants home setting in Australia.

Question 12

What were the IVs in Chaney?

Answer 12

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  weather the child used a funhaler.

Question 13

What was the DV in Chaney?

Answer 13

The amount of adherence to the prescribed medical regime.

Question 14

What was the sample in Chaney?

Answer 14

32 children, 22 male, 10 female. parents provided informed consent and participated in the study by filling in questionnaire’s.

Question 15

What was the key findings of Chaney?

Answer 15

The use of the funhaler was associated with improved parental and child compliance.

Question 16

What was a possible conclusion from Chaney?

Answer 16

Had improved adherence and may be useful for management of young asthmatics

Question 17

What was the research method for Kholberg?

Answer 17

Longitudinal study which follows the development of the same group of boys for 12 years

Question 18

What is the sample for Kholberg?

Answer 18

75 American boys who were aged 10-16. they were followed in 3 year intervals through to the ages of 22-28

Question 19

What was the procedure for American boys in Kholberg?

Answer 19

presented with hypothetical moral dilemas in the form of short stories. This involved the value of human life questions.

Question 20

What were the key findings from kholberg?

Answer 20

Participants always passed through the stages one at a time and always in the same order

Question 21

What was a possible conclusion from kohlberg?

Answer 21

middle class and working class children move through the same sequence but middle class children move faster and further.

Question 22

What is a theory for Lee?

Answer 22

childrens moral judgements rely on lying or truth telling and if a lie is punished or not.

Question 23

What was the research method for Lee?

Answer 23

Laboratory experiment that uses independant measures designs.

Question 24

What were the ivs in Lee?

Answer 24

weather they heard the social story or physical story

Question 25

What were the DV in Lee?

Answer 25

The rating given to the story characters deed and the rating given to what the character said.

Question 26

What was the 2 samples from Lee?

Answer 26

• 120 chinese children, 40 7 yr olds, 40 9yr olds, 40 11 yr olds- equally split into 20 m 20 f
• 108 canadian children, 36 7yr olds (20m 16f ), 40 9yr olds (24m 16f) 32 11yr olds (14m, 18f)

Question 27

what was the procedure for Lee?

Answer 27

Chinese- half participated in social story other half in physical story
Canadian- randomly assigned to each story

Question 28

what were the key findings in Lee?

Answer 28

Children of both cultures rated the prosocial behviours similarly.

Question 29

What was a Possible conclusion for Lee?

Answer 29

Cultures have similar moral judgements.