Psychology a2 Aggression SLT
- Created by: aliyah007
- Created on: 08-06-16 09:31
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- Aggression - SLT
- Bandura - Bobo Doll
- 66 children from a nursery school at Stanford Uni
- small sample, age biased, children from one uni - limits generalizability, applicability
- Shown video of adult behaving aggressively towards the bobo doll
- Low ecological validity, not applicable to real life. unrealistic
- 3 conditions: behaviour rewarded, punished & no consequence
- Those in condition 2 (punished) least likely to show aggressive behaviour
- No difference in other 2 groups
- 66 children from a nursery school at Stanford Uni
- Williams
- Studied levels of aggression in children aged 6-11
- Children from a community in Canada (where TV had only just been introduced)
- Cannot generalise to other locatiosn
- Age biased
- Children from a community in Canada (where TV had only just been introduced)
- Levels of physical aggression increased in those who had never seen TV before
- Studied levels of aggression in children aged 6-11
- Aggression is learned through observation of role models and imitation/ direct experience
- Idea of reinforcement is fundamental. More likely to repeat behaviour if rewarded than if punished
- Can be criticised of being over simplistic.
- ignores biological factors
- genes & hormones
- good scientific vallidity
- ignores biological factors
- Anderson et al
- Investigated whether playing violent video games leads to individuals acting more aggressively
- 200 American college students
- culture bias, age bias, college students -> educated; can guess the aim of the study: affect validity & reliability
- 2 groups: 1) played V video games 2) non-V video games
- Afterwards allowed to punish an opponent with a loud blast of noise
- Groups who played V video games used longer blasts
- ignores influence of free will
- controversial to our legal system: people are responsible for their aggressive behaviour : free will
- Real world applications
- Age restrictions on games, films etc.
- Individual differences
- Good face validity
- Bandura - Bobo Doll
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