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    This document provides a worksheet checking understanding of Bandura's 1961 Bobo doll experiment. It tests knowledge of the study's ethical concerns, design, variables, and findings regarding gender differences in aggression imitation.

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    This worksheet checks your understanding of the study by Bandura


    (1961) which can be found under key studies on Inthinking.

    Questions

    1. What are two ethical concerns of Bandura’s study?

     Undue stress or harm and deception

    2. Why did Bandura evaluate the level of aggression of the children before he began? What is
    one strength and one limitation of how this was done?

     Because the results could have been distorted if one group contained a few children
    who are normally quite aggressive. The strength is that it had high ecological validity
    because it was in a nursery and the children behaved like they always do. The
    limitation is that different observers see different things when they view the same
    event. This might mean that the ratings will vary from one observer to another.

    3. What is meant by “Bandura used a matched-pairs design?”

     It means that once all the children were measured for their level of aggression, they
    would then be ranked and allocated to groups.

    4. What were the three independent variables in the study?

     The three IV's were the gender of the model, the gender of the child and the level of
    aggression of the model.

    5. What were the dependent variables?

     the level of aggression displayed by the child towards the Bobo doll.

    6. What was the role of the control group?

     To see how children would act if there was no model and no behaviour to be imitated

    © John Crane, InThinking


    http://www.thinkib.net/psychology/ 1
    7. Why did Bandura put the children in a room full of toys, only to them that they couldn’t
    play with the toys?

     To test the “mild aggression arousal.” The child was taken to a room with attractive
    toys, but after starting to play with them, the child was told that these were the
    experimenter’s very best toys and she had decided to reserve them for the other
    children.

    8. According to Social Cognitive Theory, why does it make sense that there was a gender
    difference in aggression?

     Because girls were more likely to imitate verbal aggression, whereas boys were more likely
    to imitate physical aggression.

    © John Crane, InThinking


    http://www.thinkib.net/psychology/ 2

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