Social learning theory : Bandura et al. (1961)

• Aim : The researchers wanted to examine whether children exposed to an aggressive model would display more aggression than those exposed to a non-aggressive model, whether children were more likely to imitate a same-sex model, and whether boys would show higher levels of aggression than girls.
• • IV : whether the role model was aggressive or non-aggressive,
  • whether the role model was the same sex or opposite sex to the child; there was also
  • a Control condition where the children did not see a role model at all.