To see whether…
Children would imitate adult behaviour when given an opportunity, even if they saw the behaviours in a different environment and original model was no longer present
Hypotheses about aggression
Subjects exposed to aggressive models would reproduce aggressive acts resembling those of their models
Observation of non aggressive acts would prevent aggressive behaviour
Hypotheses about gender
Subjects would imitate the behaviour of a same sex model to a greater degree than model of opposite
Boys should be more pre-disposed than girls towards imitating aggression