Bandura, Ross and Ross (1961)
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- Bandura, Ross & Ross(1961)
- Aim
- To see whether young children will imitate behaviour they have seen
- Hypothesis
- Children will imitate the aggressive behaviour of models
- Non-aggressive models will have an inhibiting effects
- Same sex models will have more influence
- Method
- Laboratory experiment with observation
- 72 children aged 3-5 (mean 41/2) from Stanford University Nursery
- IV's
- Aggressive mode, non-aggressive model, or no model
- Gender of model
- Gender of the ppts
- DV's
- Imitative responses
- Verbal imitative phrases
- Physical ( any acts imitated - i.e using mallet on Bobo doll)
- Partially imitative responses
- Mallet aggression on other toys
- Sitting/bouncing on Bobo doll
- Non-imitative responses
- slapping Bobo doll
- aggressive gun play
- Imitative responses
- Results
- watched child for 20 mins through one way mirror, recorded observations every 5 mins
- Children who observed the aggressive models made far more aggressive responses
- Boys showed more physical aggression and girls more verbal aggression
- Both sexes were more likely to imitate their same-sex models
- Conclusion
- supports the social learning theory
- not all behaviour is shaped by reward and punishment
- Observing aggressive behaviour may weaken social inhibitions
- Evaluation
- Ethics
- Children cant provide consent
- Cant debrief a child
- Was it right to subject the children to aggressive behaviour
- Sample
- Equal number of boys/girls
- Only from one area (nursery) - ethnocentric
- Only young children
- Strengths
- High controll
- Observed real behaviour
- Weaknesses
- Low ecological validity
- Ethics
- Aim
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