Soical learning reseach
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 08-02-15 13:02
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- Social Psychological approaches to aggression
- Bandura & ross & ross
- 72 children participants
- half children exposed to an aggressive model
- experimental group
- same-sex role model
- more likely to show aggressive behaviour
- half exposed to a non-aggressive model
- control group
- different sex model
- children taken to a play room
- after a few minutes made to leave to infuriate them
- after exposed to the bobo doll
- after a few minutes made to leave to infuriate them
- issues
- laboratory based research
- low ecological validity
- cultural bias
- one cultural setting
- Bobo doll was intended for punching
- knowledge of this would influence the Childs behaviour
- noble reports that one child said 'look mummy theres the doll we have to hit' after seeing the bobo doll
- ethical issues for consent as the children were being filmed
- children learning aggressive behaviour
- study no longer aloud
- difficult to test scientific credibility of the theory
- study no longer aloud
- children learning aggressive behaviour
- knowledge of this would influence the Childs behaviour
- laboratory based research
- in variations of this study Bandura showed that rewarding the behaviour of the model encouraged imitation
- vicarious reinforcement
- explains behaviour created in the absence of direct reinforcement
- the fame that comes with wrestling may encourage aggression
- Jamie bulger
- vicarious reinforcement
- also applicable to adults
- Philips
- dailt homicide rates in the US increased after the week following a major boxing match
- the killing of one person by another.
- dailt homicide rates in the US increased after the week following a major boxing match
- Philips
- explanation of individual differences
- wolfgang's, 'the culture of violence' theory
- some cultures sanction violence
- eg UK
- other countries model aggressive behaviour
- eg ISIS in Iraq
- people not obeying hung in the street
- eg ISIS in Iraq
- Bandura & ross & ross
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