Flashcards in Social Psychological Theories Of Aggression Deck (9)
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Banduras Bobo Doll Study
66 nursery children watched film of aggressive adult
1) control
2) adult rewarded
3) adult punished
Children's play then observed and group 2 showed highest levels of aggression suggests aggression is learned through vicarious reinforcement
-demand characteristics
-children - generalizable to adults?
-psychological harm
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Chicago Study
Cognitive Priming: children learn scripts for future behaviour from anti-social models on TV. High levels of TV as child + identifying with aggressive character=2x risk of criminal of fences as adults
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St Helena Study
Undermines SLT: 1995 introduction of TV > children > found no significant change in social behaviour. Any found were equally split between anti social and pro social
-v small population lowers validity can't generalize
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Manns Baiting Crowd
Analyses 21 suicide leaps reported in US newspapers in 1960/70s. Found 10/21 cases where a crowd had gathered to watch, baiting occurred (encouragement). Tended to occur at night crowds were large and far from jumper.
-at night, drunk?
-era dependent
-retrospective data lowers reliability
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Zimbardo: Stanford Prison Experiment
Guards brutality increased with uniform and sunglasses
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Milgram
Removal of buffers lead to decrease in how high they would go on voltage of shock
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Dodd
Asked students and prison inmates what they would do if invisible for 24 hours and not held accountable for actions. Found average number of anti social responses was no different (36%)
-based on self report but diff between saying and doing
-def of anti social behaviour?
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Malmuth
Confidential survey of male US university students. Nearly 1/3 said yes to rape if they would not be caught
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