Bandura Study
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- Bandura Study
- Background
- Past studies = kids learn by observation
- Only shown kids imitating in same situation w/ adult present
- Concerned with learning of gender-specific behaviours
- Boys more likely than girls
- Past studies = kids learn by observation
- Hypotheses
- Kids w/ aggressive model = more likely to be aggressive
- Kids w/ a non-aggress model = less likely to be aggressive than no model
- Imitate more aggression from a same-sex model
- Boys more likely than girls to imitate
- Aims
- Investigate observational learning of aggression
- Would kids reproduce behaviour w/o model present
- Boys more likely than girls?
- Participants
- 72 kids from Stanford Uni nursery
- Aged 37 to 69 months
- Design
- Laboratory w/ matched pairs design and independent measures
- Kids were matched on aggression, scale 1-5
- Researcher & teacher achieved 0.89 agreement
- Kids were matched on aggression, scale 1-5
- IVs = model behaviour and sex, kid's sex
- Laboratory w/ matched pairs design and independent measures
- Procedure
- 1. Modelling the behaviour
- Brought individually into a playroom
- Invited to join game for 10 mins
- In aggressive = adult modelled novel phys & verb aggression to 5ft Bobo
- Hit with mallet
- "Kick him...pow......sock him on the nose"
- In non-aggress = assembled toys, didn't interact w/ Bobo
- 2. Aggression arousal
- Kids taken to another room alone
- Had good toys - fire engine, cable car, spinning top
- After 2 mins told they couldn't play
- For the best children
- Increases chances of aggressive behaviour
- 3. Testing for delayed imitation
- Kids were observed for 20 mins w/ experimenter in the room
- Observers watched through mirror, every 5 secs assessed for aggression
- Aggressive gunplay
- Sits on Bobo
- Non-imitative verbal aggression
- Room had range of toys (same place each time) includ. a 3ft Bob doll
- Observers didn't know which condition each kid was in
- 1. Modelling the behaviour
- Conditions
- Aggressive Male (same sex)
- Aggressive Male (opp. sex)
- Aggressive Female (same sex)
- Aggressive Female (opp. sex)
- Non-aggress Male (same sex)
- Non-aggress Male (opp. sex)
- Non-aggress Female (same sex)
- Non-aggress Female (opp. sex)
- Control (no model)
- Results
- 3 types of aggression seen
- Imitative - phys and verb
- Partially imitative - similar behaviour
- Non-imitative- not demonstrated by models
- Kids w/ aggressive model = more verb & phys imitative (& non-imitative in most cases)
- Very little difference between non-aggress and control
- Boys = more imitate aggress w/ same sex
- Girls only are when it's verbal & non-imitative
- Boys = more aggress than girls physically & verbally
- 3 types of aggression seen
- Conclusions
- Witnessing aggression = enough to produce it
- Used to believe learning it was gradual & operant conditioning
- Kids selectively imitate specific behaviour
- Boys = more likely than girls to imitate, but girls not more likely to imitate same-sex aggression
- Only cautiously conclude kids only selectively imitate same-sex model
- Boys = more likely than girls to imitate, but girls not more likely to imitate same-sex aggression
- Witnessing aggression = enough to produce it
- Evaluation
- Protection from physical & psychological harm
- Not an ethics issue however seeing angry adult may upset them
- Consent- doesn't explicitly say he got it
- Ecological validity- not real aggression, usually reasoning & consequences
- Protection from physical & psychological harm
- Explanations
- Kids already knew it, but it just became okay when adults did it
- Expect more non-imitative aggression
- Some- mostly similar to that already seen
- Suggests it was learnt
- Some- mostly similar to that already seen
- Expect more non-imitative aggression
- Kids already knew it, but it just became okay when adults did it
- Background
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