Bandura

Bandura

1. lab experiment

   • investigate social learning theory and to see if behaviour learnt in one setting would be generalised and repeated in other

2. 72 children 36 boys and 36 girls from stanford university nursery school

   • aged between 37 and 69 months with an average of 52 months

3. one male and one female model, and one female experimentor

4. Condition 1 - group 1- observed an aggressive model group 2- observed a non aggressive model group 3 - control group with no model

   • 6 boys male model 6 female 6 girls female model 6 male
     • matched pairs on aggresiveness rating carried out by experimentor and childrens teacher

5. IVs -behaviour of the model, sex of the child and sex of the model

6. Stage one- child taken to a room with toys, a mallet and a bobo doll experimentor left the room. non aggressive model ignored the bobo doll, aggressive model punched it on the nose, hit it on the head with a mallet kicked it around the room and sat on it.

7. stage 2- after 10 minutes the experimenter took the child to another room with a variety of attractive toys which they were allowed to play with for 2 minutes before being told they were for other children

8. Stage 3- taken to another room which included 'aggressive toys' like a mallet, the bobo doll, and a dart gun. and non aggressive like crayons tea set dolls and animals

   • behaviour recorded every 5 seconds in 3 categories non, partially and fully imitative aggressive behaviour
     • Children who observed the aggressive model showed more imitataed aggressive behaviour
       • 70% of children who observed the non aggressive model had 0 score for aggression
         • boys were more aggressive than girls, especially when they had a same sex model
       • they also showed more partially and non imitated aggressive bevaviour