Bandura et al (1961)
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- Bandura et al (1961)
- Definition
- Aggression: action that is aimed to do harm or causing pain, this action could be physical or verbal.
- Aim
- To see if children imitate aggressive behaviour
- Theories of aggression
- Lorenz's 'hydraulic' theory
- That agressive energies continually build up inside us until something happens to trigger it.
- Social learning theory
- Is something we learn by observation role models, children learn by observing and imitating models.
- 1) observation. 2) imitation 3) modelling
- Is something we learn by observation role models, children learn by observing and imitating models.
- Biological theories
- Level of hormones result in agressive behaviour
- Lorenz's 'hydraulic' theory
- Sample
- 36 boys , 36 girls from Stanford university nursery aged 3-5
- Self selected sample with parents responding to an advert
- Strength
- - Equal number of boys and girls - Large sample size
- Weaknesses
- Only children from stanford university nursery
- Procedure
- Watch child taken individually in the room, and then model was invited to join them. Child is seated at small table in one corner of the room child was encourage to play with the stickers and potato prints
- Once child is settle, the model is put on the opposite corner which contained small table with toys, chair, tinker toy, mallet and bobo doll.
- If child in ag group then model play with toy quietly and then turn and be ag to the bobo doll. Physical ag push it, sit on it and hit the bobo doll. Verbal ag (pow, sock it to him)
- Non-ag condition: the model assemble the tinker toy in a subdue manner and ignore bobo doll
- Once child is settle, the model is put on the opposite corner which contained small table with toys, chair, tinker toy, mallet and bobo doll.
- Stage 2: Children played with some attractive toys fro 2 mins then decided they were reserve for other children
- Stage 3: child in room for 20 mins with a selection of non ag ( tea set, plastic animal) and ag toys (fart gun, mallet) child recorded action every 5 seconds while experimenter sat quietly in corner
- Watch child taken individually in the room, and then model was invited to join them. Child is seated at small table in one corner of the room child was encourage to play with the stickers and potato prints
- Research method
- Lab experiment
- - low ecological validity - demand characteristic
- Strength
- - controlled environment - cause and effect between what they observed and there agressive behaviour
- Experimental design was matched participants (triplets)
- IV 1: the behaviour IV2: the gender of the model IV3: the gender of the child
- the 3 conditions of IV1: the a model condition, the non- agressive model condition, the control group (no model)
- DV: levels of aggression
- Lab experiment
- Definition
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