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Bandura et al. 1961
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_beqzag
1. Background, what is observa- transmission of aggression through imita-
tional learning (in this study) tion of aggressive models.
2. Aims (3) -observing, gender, sex To investigate whether children would
& model learn through observing a model and re-
produce aggressive behavior when the
model was absent
To investigate gender differences in ag-
gression of observer.
To investigate whether reinforcement at
home (for gender appropriate behaviours)
would result in a greater degree of imita-
tive learning of a same-sex model.
3. Hypothesis: will aggression be Aggressive behaviour will be imitated:
imitated? more in aggressive Children seeing aggressive models will
model or non-aggressive? be more aggressive than those seeing a
non-aggressive model or no model.
Will non-aggressive behaviour
be imitated? Will children who Non-aggressive behaviour will be imitated:
see non-aggressive be more or Children seeing non-aggressive models
less aggressive? will be less aggressive than those seeing
no model.
Same-sex model: more likely to
imitate? Children are more likely to copy same
sex-model.
Will boys or girls be more ag-
gressive? Boys will be more likely to copy aggression
than girls.
4. Participants - number/gen- 72 ppts (36 females & 36 males)
der/where from/type of sam-
pling/age Nursery of Stanford University
opportunity sampling
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37 months to 69 months old (Mean: 52
months)
5. Method? IV (3), DV/ number of Lab experiement
conditions
IV: Aggressive or non aggressive model,
sex of model, sex of children
DV: learning of aggressive behaviour
demonstrated and observed in each cat-
egory
8 conditions
6. Type of experimental design. Matched pairs
How were they put into groups?
What variable does this rid? Children matched on aggression into each
condition.
Participant variable - natural aggression
7. Who did the matching up? Matched by 1 researcher and 1 nursery
What was the inter-rater reliabil- teacher (independently)
ity rating? High inter-rater reliability 0.89.
How many children were rated & Rated 51 of the children on a scale of 1-5
what scale was used? What sort for physical and verbal aggression.
of aggression was rated?
8. After matching, the children or- triplets, aggression scores, independent
ganised into ___ based on the variable
same ___. Each triplet is allocat-
ed to a different _____.
9. How many children saw an ag- 24 (12 boys/12 girls)
gressive model? What about -- Male model - 6 boys and 6 girls
non-aggressive and control? -- Female model - 6 boys and 6 girls
Same with other conditions.
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