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Description
Flashcards by Georgia Bishop, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Georgia Bishop
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Aim | To investigate whether children will imitate aggressive behavior: aggressive model will lead to aggressive reproduction (similar acts and general behavior) same sex boys more aggressive than girls |
| Sample | opportunity sample from stanford university, california - nursery. 72, 36 boys 36 girls (3-5yrs) matched pairs - aggression, possible extraneous variable controlled. |
| Independent measures | Aggressive or non-aggressive model, gender of model, gender of child |
| Dependent Variable | imitation of aggressive acts/observed behaviour |
| Experimental groups | aggressive model non-aggressive model no model |
| The break down | |
| Findings: complete imitation | aggressive condition, imitated many aggressive model behaviours non aggressive didn't, 70% had zero scores |
| Findings: non imitative aggression | Aggressive group displayed more non- imitated aggression, the difference was small non significant. |
| Findings: Non-aggressive behaviour | children in the non-aggressive condition spent more time playing non-aggressively with dolls. |
| findings: Gender effects | same sex - boys not girls gender of model - males had greater influence gender of child - boys more physical aggression but groups didn't differ in verbal aggression. |
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