Bandura Flashcards
(25 cards)
What was the predominant thought at this time about the effects on children seeing adult behaviour?
Previous research suggested that children will imitate behaviour of an adult models but only when the adult was still present
There was also a belief that watching aggressive behaviour would lower someones agressive drive through a process called catharsis
What was the aim of banduras study?
See whether children would imitate adult behaviour when given the oppotunity, even if they saw these behaviours in a different eviornment and the original ‘model’ they observed performing the behaviour was no longer present. It was agressive behaviour that Bandura was interested in
4 specific hypotheses of the study?
- Subjects exposed to agressive models would reproduce agressive acts resebling those of their models
- Observation of non agressive models would have a generalised inhibiting effect on the subjects subsequent behaviour
- Subjects would imitate the behaviour of a same sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex
- Boys should be more pre disposed (inclined) than girls towards imitating agression
What was the sample?
72 children
36 girls
36 boys
37-69 months (3-5 years)
Stanford uni nursery
How were the ppts obtained?
Oppotunity sampling, children from the nursery used
What were the children matched on?
Matched ppts design:
Matched on levels of agression
How did Bandura know what the childrens prior levels of agression were?
Nursery teacher and an adult tried t get best matched scores, each child was given an overall rating and then put into groups of 3
They showed a high level of agreement (inter rater relaibility- 89% agreement)
How did B allocate children to different conditions of experiment?
Physical agression
Verbal agression
Agression towards inanimate objects
Agression inhibition (stopping themselves from being agressive when provoked)
One advantage of matched pts design?
Made the test more accurate
Any agression shown with differenced were due to the model not their own personality
One disadvantage with matched ppts design?
Time consuming and difficult
IV’s in this study?
Sex of the child
Gender of the model
Behaviour of model
What were the different model conditions?
Agressive male model
Agressive female model
Non agressive male
Non agressive female
No model
Results of banduras story
Boys watching an agressive male model gave 25.8 agressive acts vs only 1.5 agressive acts when watching a non agressive male
Boys who saw an agressive male model showed a mean of 25.8 physical acts but an agressive female model they showed 12.4 agressive acts
Boys showed on average 38.2 imitate physicl agressive acts and girls only 12.7
what study does this link to
chaney
how long did each stage last
stage 1- 10 min
stage 2- 2 min
stage 3- 20 min
what toys were given to the children in the mild agression arousal stage
fire engine, train, cable car, doll set
what did the model do with the toys in stage1
played with them agressively
said things like:
‘throw him in the air’
‘hit him down’
‘kick him’
in non agg condition what did the model do with the toys
played with tinker toys and ignored bobo doll
whats a novel agressive act
an act which is violent commited for the first time and is unrelated to any violece pathway
eg pretended to shoot doll, verbal comments
what was the predominant thought about the effect of watching agression
children will imitate behaviour of adult models but only when the adult is present
belief that watching agressive behaviour would lower someones agressive drive (cathariss)
how does this link to behaviourist perspective
- social learning theory: imitate behaviour
- behaviourism: all behaviour isnt learned through the environment
whats banduras 3 conclusiuons
- children more likely to imitate same gender models
-children learn agression by watching it - children imitate non agressige behaviours
name 2 comments made by the kids
‘that aint no way for a lady to behave’
‘hes a good fighter like daddy’
‘that girl was just acting like a man’
strengths
equal gender split
controlled
‘in loco’ parents gave consent
large sample
looked at several factors
