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social SLT Who is Bandura and what did he do? |
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Did study with bobo dolls. Divided 66 nursery children into 3 groups; condition 1: children saw adult being praised for aggressive behaviour condition 2: saw adult being punished for aggressive behaviour condition 3: adult didnt get punished or praised found that children in condition 1 were more likely to be more aggressive when they played with the doll. children in condition 2 were less aggressive. |
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social SLT name two positive and 2 negative evaluation points for SLT |
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+ explains how reinforcement in different contexts can lead to differences in behaviour in different roles + explains influence of tv and film on behaviour of children - ignores biological factors e.g. genetic and hormones - Bandura's exp - low ecological validity and high demand characteristics - the children who were more aggressive towards the bobo dolls were rated as more aggressive children generally by their teachers and peers. this may cause conflict for the results |
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social deindividuation what is deindividuation? |
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deindividuation is when people become faceless and loose sight of their socialised individual identity when they are in a large crowd |
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social deindividuation
name 2 pieces of research into deindividuation |
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Zimbardo - put 'abandoned' cars in New York and a small town in California. car was stripped and vandalised quickly in the large city but the car that was in the town was left alone. shows that when in a larger group, more anonymous individual becomes therefore acts as a catalyst for more extreme behaviour Milgram - the pp's were more likely to give higher shocks to the pp's that they couldn't not see because they lost their identity and therefore also lost their shame and guilt |
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social deindividuation name 2 negative and 1 positive evaluation points for deindividuation |
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- effects of large groups can aslo have a prosocial behavioural effect e.g. collective good will at religious rallies - doesn't explain whether deindividuation actually causes aggressive behaviour or whether it just acts as a catalyst for it + however there has been supporting evidence from research studies |
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social relative deprivation theory name the 2 types of relative deprivation and explain what they mean |
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- egoistic relative deprivation individual compares themselves with another similar individual -fraternalistic relative deprivation individual compares their group with another similar group this happens because they feel like the other group or person is being treat better than them. |
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social relative deprivation theory name 2 negative evaluation points for the relative deprivation theory |
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- aggression can be caused by other factors than fustration - e.g. social learning - fustration may lead to other behaviours such as depression or despair |
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