Aggression Quiz

In what way did learning occur in Bandura et al’s study?

• Operant conditioning

• Classical conditioning

• Social learning

Imitative verbal aggression was lowest in the:

• Control group

• Children who watched a non-aggressive model

• Children who watched an aggressive model

Researchers’ justification for annoying the children at the beginning was:

• to increase the chance for aggressive behavior in the control group

• to keep children blinded from demand characteristics

• to minimize order effects disrupting the validity of the research

What was the age range of the participants?

• 37 months to 69 months, the average age was 52 months

• 30 months to 59 months, the average age was 52 months

• 37 months to 71 months, the average age was 52 months

Which of the following was NOT an IV in the study?

• Type of model

• Age of model

• Gender of model

• Gender of children

Girls showed more physical aggression if the model was male and more verbal aggression if the model was female.

• True

• False

This study was a matched pairs design, what were participants matched on? 

• Age

• Pre-rated intelligence levels

• Pre-rated gendered behavior

• Pre-rated aggression levels

R=0.89 means there's a very good agreement between who in terms of the aggression of the children before the study began?

• Researcher and teacher

• Researcher and parents

• Parents and teacher

• Two researchers

If a child struck other objects than the bobo doll with a mallet, the observer would code this behavior under:

• Imitative physical aggression

• Mallet aggression

• Non-imitative physical aggression

• Imitative verbal aggression

How many children were in the experimental condition?

• 48

• 24

• 50