Anti-Social Behaviour - Social Learning theory
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- Anti-Social Behaviour - Social Learning Theory
- Josephson
- Exposed 367 7-9 year old boys to either a violent or non-violent fim
- Found that later, after being observed, boys who watched the violent film acted more aggressively during a game of hockey than the boys who watched a non-violent film
- High external validity
- Large sample size
- Gender bias - only boys
- Bandura (1965)
- Exposed young children to a video of either an adult acting aggressively or a video of an adult acting non-aggressively.
- Children were then individually observed in a playroom with a bobo doll.
- Found that 88% of children who had watched the video of the aggressive adult, imitated their aggressive behaviour and hit the bobo doll.
- Supports the social learning theory as it shows children imitating aggressive behaviours that they have learnt from observing TV
- Lacks external validity - lab experiment
- High control of variables
- Acting aggressively on a bobo doll is different to acting aggressively with another human in a real life setting.
- Josephson
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