Learning - Bandura

Question 1

What is the psychology being investigated

Answer 1

1. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY: learning indirectly thru others
   attention
   retention
   reproduction
   motivation
2. AGRGRESSION: any behavioural act that has the intention to harm another living organsim physical / verbal

Question 2

Overall aim

Answer 2

investigate observational learning of aggression

Question 3

What was the specific aim of the study?

Answer 3

1. See whether children would reproduce aggressive behaviour when model no longer present
2. look for gender differences in learning of aggression

Question 4

describe the ppts

Answer 4

72 ppts
36 male + 36 female
nursery school of stanford univeristy
3 - 5yrs

Question 5

what was the design of the study

Answer 5

Laboratory experiment
Matched group design
effect of 3 IVs tested
1. behavioru of model
2. sex of model
3. sex of children

Question 6

How was aggression tested

Answer 6

8 conditions + control group
children in each condition matched for their aggression level so it was not a confounding variable
researcher + nursery teacher rated children on scale of 0 - 5 for attributes
1. physical aggression
2. Verbal aggression
3. Aggression towards intimate objects
4. Aggression inhibition

Question 7

What was the procedure for the study?

Answer 7

1. Modelling the behaviour
   potato prints
   shown the aggression by the model
2. Aggression arousal
   child enters game room
   want to make child angry
3. Testing for delayed initation
   seeing if child imitates the aggression

Question 8

results

Answer 8

• boys showed more gun play
• girls more verbally aggressive
• boys more physically aggressive
• more likely to imitate same sex model
• control grp showed more mallet aggression than the non aggressive group

Question 9

conclusions

Answer 9

• witnessign aggression is enough to produce aggression
• boys more likely to imitate physical aggression#
• girls more likely to imitate verbal aggression
• children imitate same sex models