Developmental-Bandura Flashcards
Who were the participants of the study?
72 children were divided into three groups, one that would observe an adult acting aggressively towards a blow up doll, one watch an adult act non-aggressively towards a blow up doll, and the last one saw nothing
What was the aim of the Bandura Study?
To investigate the extent to which children would imitate agression modelled by adults, and to investigate the effects of gender on imitation
What was the procedure?
- Children were seperated into three groups and placed in three different game rooms and invited to join in a game. Adult was only present in two.
- In first group Adult acted aggressively towards blow up doll. In second group the adult acted non aggressively. In the third controlled group, nothing happened.
- All children were then taken to a controlled room with expensive toys in them and allowed to play with them for two minutes,before suddenly being cut off from them.
- Observers then watched the children through a two way mirror for their reactions in a play room to the previous actions they had done.
What type of results did the observers get??
- The first group showed physical and verbal agression similar to that of the model that they had been shown.
- The second group showed passive behaviour as with the model that they had got.
- The third group showed no aggressive actions.
What were the conclusions that were found?
- Witnessing aggression in a model can be enough to produce aggression by the observer
- Children selectively imitate gender-specific behaviour. Thus boys are more likely to imitate physical aggression while girls are more likely to imitate verbal aggression
What was the design of the experiment?
Independent measures design
What was the I.V and D.V
I.V- the aggression displayed by the children after they had observed it
D.V- What the children observed
What type of experiment was this?
A lab experiment and on some levels an observation
