Bandura

• What is the aim of Bandura‘s study?

  To investigate if children imitate specific acts of aggression and behave generally aggressive after being exposed to violence.
• What is Bandura‘s design?

  Lab experiment
• What are the IVs of Bandura’s study?

  Agressive/Non-agressive model

  Model gender

  Child gender
• What are the DVs in Bandura’s study?

  Imitation of aggressive acts, behaviour of children through observation. Including the children’s physical and verbal aggression and partial imitation, non imitated aggression and non-aggressive play
• Describe Bandura’s sample.

  72 children: 36 boys, 36 girls from Stanford university nursery obtained via opportunity sample
• What were the children matched on?


  4 5 point scales of pre-existing aggression including physical, verbal aggression alongside aggression towards inanimate objects and aggressive inhibition
• Describe phase 1 (modelling stage)

  10minutes

  Group 1- aggressive model: throwing, kicking, and shouting at bobo

  Group 2- non-aggressive model: playing with toys eg. tinker toys

  Group 3- control, no model
• Describe phase 2 of Bandura’s study (Aggression arousal)

  Play was stopped because the toys were said to be for other children so they had to stop playing with the fire engine and car for example
• Describe phase 3 of Bandura’s study (testing of delayed imitation)

  Room with aggressive toys eg guns, bobo doll and non-aggressive toys like a tea set. Observed through one way mirror every 5 seconds so 240 intervals.