background
What tendency of children was being studied?
Aggression
what is the psychology being studied?
social learning theory
List one of the specific aims
1. To see whether children would reproduce aggressive behavior when the model was no longer present
2. To look for gender differences in learning of aggression
How many groups were the children matched into?
Three groups depending on their levels of aggression
How many kids were put into control groups?
12 boys and 12 girls
What did previous studies show about children and adults?
Children tend to mimic adult behavior
What stage deals with behaviors of the role model and their traits such as friendliness or physical traits?
Attention
How many participants and how were they split? What was their mean age?
72 participants with a mean age of 4 years and four months, split half between boys and girls (36 and 36)
How many children were rated by two observers? What is it called when there is more than one person rating?
51; inter-rater reliability
How many times was the bobo doll beat up in a period of nine minutes?
What type of learning is the study concerned about?
Gender-specific learning
What stage deals with vicarious reinforcement and rewards?
Motivation
List the research method and its design.
-Independent groups with matched pairs
How long was each child observed for? What were they observed through?
20 minutes through a one-way mirror
How long were the intervals of the child being observed?
5 seconds
A further purpose of the study was to investigate whether ___ were more likely to imitate aggression than ____, and whether they would be more likely to imitate ____ than _____ models
boys, girls, male, female
What stage deals with long-term memory and the desire for imitation?
List and explain two of the three IVs
-Model type: whether the model was aggressive, non-aggressive or there was no model
-Model gender: If the model matched the gender of the observer or was a different gender
-Learner gender: whether the observer was a boy or a girl
List and explain two of the three response measures of children’s imitation
-Imitation of Physical aggression: hurting/attacking the bobo doll
-Imitative Verbal aggression: repetition of abusive phrases. Specifically, ‘Sock him,’ ‘Hit him down,’ ‘Kick him,’ ‘Throw him in the air,’ or ‘Pow’
-Imitative non-aggressive verbal response: repetition of phrases such as ‘He keeps coming back for more’ or ‘He sure is a tough fella’
List the Partially imitative aggression factors
Mallet aggression and Sitting on Bobo doll
Children see who as preferred gender-stereotyped behaviors?
their parents
What stage deals with capability of imitating behavior and what happens if they can or cannot imitate the behavior?
Reproduction
How was the DV measured?
Through covert, structured, nonparticipant, controlled observation
Table and chair with activities (there were two of these), a Tinkertoy set, a mallet, and a five foot bobo doll
List at least three aggressive toys in the experimental room OR four non-aggressive toys in the experimental room
Aggressive: three foot bobo doll, a mallet and peg board, two dart guns, a tether ball with a face painted on it.
Non-Aggressive: Tea set, crayons and paper, a ball, two dolls, three bears, cars and trucks, and plastic farm animals