Bandura
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- Created on: 30-04-15 16:33
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- Bandura
- Background
- Social learning theory - children may learn behaviours by observing others.
- Aim
- To demonstrate that children observing an aggressive role model would imitate the behaviour of the role model.
- Participants
- 72 children from Stanford University nursery (36 boys, 36 girls). 24 children in each condition.
- Age ranged from 37-69 months and the mean age was 52 months.
- Procedure
- A lab experiment with 3 conditions was used - aggressive, non-aggressive and control.
- 6 of each gender saw the aggressive male, non-aggressive male, aggressive female and non-aggressive female.
- Matched participant design
- Children were exposed to their experimental condition then taken into another room with toys in but were told that these toys were too good for them and were taken to a third room.
- The third room held a number of aggressive and non-aggressive toys. Such as the bobo doll.
- Conclusions
- No classical or operant conditioning took place
- Children were more likely to learn from same-sex models
- Evaluation
- Ethnocentric bias - all children were from the University University.
- Cause & effect could be established as it was an experiment, and Inter-rater reliability is high in terms of how they were rated prior to the study.
- Quantitative data was collected - easy to analyse. Qualitative data - what the children said/actions.
- It is unknown if the children's assent was gained, distressing situations and deliberately antagonised.
- Results
- The children in the aggressive condition imitated many of the modelled physical and verbal aggressive behaviours, but also imitated non-aggressive behaviours.
- The children in the non-aggressive condition imitated very few of the modelled behaviours and 70% had zero scores. They spent more time playing with toys and more time doing nothing.
- Boys imitated more physical aggression and were more aggressive after watching the male aggressive model. Females were more aggressive after watching the female aggressive model
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