Bandura

Question 1

How is human behaviour learnt, such as aggression?

Answer 1

Imitation of a role models

Question 2

Is this study more nurture or nature?

Answer 2

Nurture

Question 3

What is vicarious reinforcement?

Answer 3

When you get rewarded

Question 4

What is the experiment used in Bandura?

Answer 4

Laboratory

Question 5

What design is used?

Answer 5

Independent/Matched design

Question 6

What were the 3 independent variables?

Answer 6

Whether the child saw an aggressive/ non aggressive or no model
Sex of the model
Sex of the child

Question 7

What was the dependent variable?

Answer 7

The amount of aggressive acts imitated noted through observations

Question 8

What 3 conditions were they matched in?

Answer 8

Aggressive model
Non aggressive
No model

Question 9

How many children were used?

Answer 9

72 children

Question 10

What school were they taken from?

Answer 10

Stanford University Nursery School

Question 11

What did the ages range from? And the mean age?

Answer 11

37-69 months

52 months

Question 12

What did room 1 include?

Answer 12

Toys including a Bobo Doll

Question 13

What did the anteroom include?

Answer 13

Attractive toys

Question 14

What did room 3 include?

Answer 14

Aggressive toys (darts, guns, bobo dolls) and non-aggressive toys (tea sets, dolls)

Question 15

Why did they need a one way mirror?

Answer 15

For observation

Question 16

How long did they play for potato prints and picture stickers?

Answer 16

10 minutes

Question 17

In the aggressive model condition. How long did the model play with the Tinkertoy?

Answer 17

1 minute

Question 18

How long did they behave physically?

Answer 18

9 minutes

Question 19

What did they do to the doll for the 9 minutes?

Answer 19

Kicking and hitting it with a hammer

Question 20

What did they do in the verbal section?

Answer 20

Sock him

Kick him

Question 21

How long were they allowed to play with the toys for?

Answer 21

2 minutes

Question 22

How long was their behaviour observed for in the third room?

Answer 22

20 minutes

Question 23

What was the observer reliability?

Answer 23

+0.9, strong positive correlation

Question 24

How did they help eliminate observer bias?

Answer 24

The observers were unaware of which condition the children were in

Question 25

How many imitative physical acts did the boys show with the aggressive male model?

Answer 25

25.4

Question 26

How many imitative verbal acts did the girls shoe with the aggressive female model?

Answer 26

13.7

Question 27

What are 2 key findings?

Answer 27

Children in the aggressive model show more imitative verbal and physical aggressive behaviour than those in the non-aggressive condition

Generally children in the non-aggressive condition showed very little aggression

Question 28

What are 2 conclusions?

Answer 28

Children learn behaviour through observation and imitation

Physical aggression is more likely to be learned from a male adult than a female adult