Experimental Design

Question 1

What were the children matched on

Answer 1

Gender and prior aggression levels

Question 2

How were children measured for aggression

Answer 2

Nursery teacher rated them on a 5 point scale
Physical aggression, verbal aggression, aggression towards inanimate objects, aggression inhibition

Question 3

Inter rater reliability

Answer 3

A second researcher also rated the children on aggression

Question 4

How were children grouped

Answer 4

Each child was grouped with 2 other children who showed similar aggression
Randomly assigned to either aggressive, non aggressive or model conditions

Question 5

Advantage and disadvantage of matched participants

Answer 5

Adv- any differences in aggression will be due to model and not child’s behaviour
Dis- time consuming and difficult