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Created by Georgia Bishop
over 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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