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External influences on children's behaviour

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Question 1

In Bandura et al.'s (1961) study on the transmission of aggression, how did the researchers control for the children's pre-existing levels of aggression to ensure well-matched groups?

A

By assessing the children's behavioral responses to a structured laboratory-based frustration task prior to the main experiment.

B

By having a nursery teacher and the experimenter rate each child on four 555-point scales of aggressive behavior.

C

By administering a standardized personality questionnaire to the children's parents regarding aggression at home.

D

By using a double-blind random allocation procedure without any pre-experimental behavioral assessment.

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External influences on children's behaviour Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /External influences on children's behaviour

152 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology External influences on children's behaviour, covering Bandura et al. (1961): Transmission of aggression and Chaney et al. (2004): Funhaller study. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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