Noah Watson and Alex Walker What is Aggression Aggression is heavily researched in Psychology Very hard to define so researchers look for sources of aggression instead Why do People engage in acts of aggression ID: 658554
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See Aggression Do Aggression
-Noah Watson and Alex WalkerSlide2
What is Aggression?
Aggression is heavily researched in Psychology
Very hard to define- so researchers look for sources of aggression instead
Why do People engage in acts of aggression?Biologically ProgrammedSituational FactorsAggression is LearnedSlide3
The Bobo
Experiment
Experiment led by Albert Bandura, Dorothea Ross, Sheila Ross in 1961 at Stanford University
Goal- Demonstrate how children learn to be aggressive.Bandura is the founder of the “social learning” theory of psychologyLearning is the primary factor in personality development
Belief that behavior in children could be
shaped
Bandura had 4 proposed theories before the experimentSlide4
Experimental Proceedings
Subjects- 36 boys 36 girls aged 3-6.
24/72 Children were part of a control group
The remaining 48 were divided24 received nonviolent treatment24 received violent treatmentEach treatment group divided by genderThey were split again into same sex treatment vs. opposite sex treatment
Bandura rated each
child's
initial level of aggression Slide5
Experimental Proceedings (cont.)
After being divided into groups- the experiment began
Each group had the same setup (minus treatment) to avoid error
Four responses of aggression were measuredPhysical Aggression- Hitting/Kicking/Punching bobo
Verbal Aggression- Saying violent phrases (ex. “Hit him”)
Other Mallet Aggression- Hitting things besides the
bobo
Nonimitative
Aggression- Other physical and verbal not shown by model. Slide6
ResultsSlide7
Recent Applications:
In last 10 years- large increase in number of violent behavior in children
In 2000 six national medical associations addressed Congress
Said that violent media triggered aggressive behavior in kidsAlso leads to desensitization towards violenceIf kids are exposed to violence it will not go away due to age. Conversely, kids who are exposed to violence at a young age are more likely to commit violence later on.These violent acts occur regardless of a kids socioeconomic status, intelligence or parental factors.
Efforts have shifted away from stopping children from viewing violent media to preventing media violence from translating into real life aggression Slide8
How does this relate to my life?
Did Violent Video Games have a role in the Sandy Hook Shooting?
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