Bandura at al.

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
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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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