Banduras Study
REPORT ON BANDURA,S STUDY
SUMMARY
CHILDRENS BEHAVIOURS INFLUENCED AN INTRODUCTION TO THE REPORT:
In this report we can learn to understand the ways in which young children develop their behaviour aggressive or otherwise, by watching and imitating others, known more commonly nowadays as Social Learning.
In 1963 a team of psychologists by the names of A Bandura, Ross and Ross, started an investigation into aggressive acts shown by children and where the influence for these aggressive acts came from, they were also investigating which gender was more easily influenced.
THE EXPERIMENT
Bandura et al (1963) and his colleagues carried out this study at Stanford University using a total of ninety-six children taken from the University day care centre, with an equal amount of male and females between the ages of three and six years old. They were then divided into four groups with each group containing twenty-four children. Although all children underwent similar tests variations were introduced to each group showing them different levels of violence and aggressive acts.
The experiment was based around an inflatable Bodo doll which is approximately the size of a young child and where the models both male and female adults would act aggressively towards the doll, by hitting, kicking and throwing the doll into the air while using verbal words like “HIT HIM DOWN”, “KICK HIM”, and “THROW HIM IN THE AIR”, while the children observed.
THE FOUR GROUPS
GROUP 1 – Watched live model behaving aggressively to the Bodo doll.
GROUP 2 – Watched a film of the live male behaving aggressively to the Bodo doll.
GROUP 3 – Watched a film of cartoon like character behaving aggressively to the Bodo doll.
GROUP 4 – Were not exposed to any viewing of aggressive behaviour to the Bodo doll.
After this the child was taken into a second room filled with toys, they were then told They could play but as the started to play were then stopped immediately and told by experimenters these were
SUMMARY
CHILDRENS BEHAVIOURS INFLUENCED AN INTRODUCTION TO THE REPORT:
In this report we can learn to understand the ways in which young children develop their behaviour aggressive or otherwise, by watching and imitating others, known more commonly nowadays as Social Learning.
In 1963 a team of psychologists by the names of A Bandura, Ross and Ross, started an investigation into aggressive acts shown by children and where the influence for these aggressive acts came from, they were also investigating which gender was more easily influenced.
THE EXPERIMENT
Bandura et al (1963) and his colleagues carried out this study at Stanford University using a total of ninety-six children taken from the University day care centre, with an equal amount of male and females between the ages of three and six years old. They were then divided into four groups with each group containing twenty-four children. Although all children underwent similar tests variations were introduced to each group showing them different levels of violence and aggressive acts.
The experiment was based around an inflatable Bodo doll which is approximately the size of a young child and where the models both male and female adults would act aggressively towards the doll, by hitting, kicking and throwing the doll into the air while using verbal words like “HIT HIM DOWN”, “KICK HIM”, and “THROW HIM IN THE AIR”, while the children observed.
THE FOUR GROUPS
GROUP 1 – Watched live model behaving aggressively to the Bodo doll.
GROUP 2 – Watched a film of the live male behaving aggressively to the Bodo doll.
GROUP 3 – Watched a film of cartoon like character behaving aggressively to the Bodo doll.
GROUP 4 – Were not exposed to any viewing of aggressive behaviour to the Bodo doll.
After this the child was taken into a second room filled with toys, they were then told They could play but as the started to play were then stopped immediately and told by experimenters these were