AS Psychology Core Studies - Bandura et al. - Flashcards in A Level and IB Psychology

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What is Bandura's Theory called?

Social Learning Theory

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How many partcipants took part in the experiment, and what were their approximate ages?

72 equally spilt boys and girls, aged between 3-5

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What was the problem with using the male model as the obsever?

He could be biased into thinking that his groups of children displayed more/less aggression than the female models groups

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Why was it important that the children were taken into a very different setting for the 'aggression arousal'?

So they do not associate one setting with aggressive acts and they act of their own accord.

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What type of behaviour was observed?

Imitative aggressive responses; partially aggressive responses and non-imitative aggressive reponses (physical and verbal)

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How could aggression actually been seen as an extraneous variable in this study?

Aggression levels are already present in every child and vary - some children could have already been very aggressive and just showed their normal behaviour

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The models affected behaviour in two ways, what are they?

Provided information on specific behaviours and increased aggression levels

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Does the study support the nature side of the nature/nurture argument?

No, as it suggests behaviour is learnt, especially through imitation

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AS Psychology Core Studies - Bandura et al.