BANDURA

Social Learning Theory-Previous behaviourists had insisted that behaviour is learned from __ __ with the environment

Direct interactions

Bandura thought behaviour could be learned __ from others

indirectly

Until this study, little was known about how likely children would model behaviour if:

the model is absent

AIM: whether learning can occur through:

observation of a model

AIM: whether imitation can occur through __: copied even if the model is no longer there

transimission

RESEARCH METHOD:

Lab Experiment

DESIGN:

Matched Pairs

SAMPLING TECHNIQUE:

Opportunistic sampling

DATA TYPE:

Quantitative data

DATA LEVEL:

Ordinal

SAMPLE:__ ( __ boys, __ girls)

72, 36, 36

Matched pairs design:(2)

• Pre-existng agression

• Rated on a scale of 1-5 by nursery teacher

IV:(4)

• Gender of child

• Gender of model

• Behaviour of model

• Same gender or opposite gender model

DV:(2)

• Amount of aggression

• Type of aggression

STAGE 1-Children in both conditions were tested alone and taken into room 1, playing with __ __ for __ minutes

potato prints, 10

STAGE 1-Aggressive model condition: children watch a model play with a tinker toy, before the model starts acting __ and __ __ to a bobo doll in the room

physically, verbally aggressive

STAGE 1-Non-aggressive model condition: Children watch a model quietly assemble __ and ignore the bobo doll

tinker toys

STAGE 1:The __ condition do not go into room 1

control

STAGE 2: All children taken individually to room 2 for __ __ __

mild aggression arousal

STAGE 2:They were allowed to play with some __ toys, then they got taken away, telling the children they are not __ __

attractive, special enough

STAGE 3:Experimenter takes all children __ into room 3

individually

STAGE 3: Two observers scored behaviour through a one-way mirror, every _ minutes for _ seconds, giving __ observations in total

5, 20, 240

What three behaviours were operationalised?

• Direct imitation

• Partial imitation

• Non-imitative aggression

QUAN RESULTS-Children in the aggressive condition showed __ aggression than the control and non-aggressive condition

more

QUAN RESULTS-More __ __ and non-imitative physical and verbal aggression

QUAN RESULTS-Significantly more __ __ of physical and aggressive

direct imitation

QUAN RESULTS-Children who saw the __ __ imitated the models behaviour significantly more

same-sex model

All children were more likely to imitate the __ model regardless of the gender of the child

male

Overall, boys produced more __ __ __ than girls

imitative physical aggression

CON-Children learn __ through imitation

CON-Observation of adults can ‘__’ behaviour

legitimise

CON-Children are more likely to imitate a model with whom they __

identify

CON-Children have clear expectations about __ __

sex-appropriate behaviour