Social Explanations for Aggression

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What does the Social Learning Theory (SLT) state?
Everyone will observe lots of role models behaving in lots of different ways. For each situation, we will select the most appropriate behaviour based on what others have used in the past
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Bandura 1961- showed that children will copy the aggressive behaviour of adult models. What did he do/find?
Children saw an adult role model act aggressively towards a bobo doll. The children were then far more aggressive than the group who had not seen the adult be aggressive
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Bandura 1965- repeated the study with the variation of letting the child see the adult being rewarding or punished. What did he find?
The group who saw the adult punished were less likely to copy the behaviour. When they think a reward is available, their motivation to copy is high. However when punishment, their motivation to copy is low
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What did Cumberbatch 1990 report?
Those who were unfamiliar with the doll were 5x more likely to imitate aggressive behaviour.
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What does research done in labs lack?
Ecological validity
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What did Charlton 2000 find/do?
Observed children before and after the introduction of television, to see if it would increase their aggression. It did not.
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What is Deinviduation?
People are usually inhibited from acting aggressively because if they can be identified, there is a threat of punishment. But if they are in a group and can't be identified, this inhibitions will be lost
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Zimbardo (1969) conducted a Milgram-like experiment. What did he find?
Those wearing lab coats and hoods that covered their faces gave shocks of double the intensity to those who wore their own clothes
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What did Johnson and Downing say?
This was due to the nature of the outfits (resembled the Ku Klux Klan) and found that P’s dressed as nurses gave less shocks than those dressed in their own clothes
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What are the four factors which can decrease self-awareness?
Poor-self monitoring of behaviour, Reduced need for social approval, Reduced inhibitions against behaving impulsively and Reduced rational thinking
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Zimbardo- Two abandoned cars. One in the Bronx (stripped in and destroyed within days) the other in Palo Alto (untouched after a week). Why?
Palo Alto seen as a community where people look out for each other, in the Bronx people feel anonymous.
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What is an issue with this study?
Cause and effect- does the Bronx cause people to be like that or do violent people go to live in the Bronx?
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What should have Zimbardo's prisoners of done like the guards?
They should have been deindividuated and become aggressive however instead they became obedient and apathetic
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Crowds are not always violent, what does this mean?
This explanation is deterministic
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