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Article Assignment #2 “See Aggression... Do Aggression.” In “See Aggression...Do Aggression” Bandura’s theoretical proposition was that he believed that children can learn to be aggressive. Bandura decided to conduct an experiment to see if he was right. He believed that if you expose a child to either a aggressive model or a nonaggressive model that the children would imitate the actions of the model. His test would show to just what extent the children mimic the behaviors displayed. In the article his propositions were broken up into four different parts. The first being that when children are placed in a room with an aggressive model they would act out similar behaviors even when the model is not present. Bandura believed that these children’s behavior would be significantly different from the children who observed a nonaggressive model. The second was that Bandura believed that the children who observed a nonaggressive model would be much less aggressive than the children who had an aggressive model. He also thought that these children would be less aggressive than the children who were in the control group with no model at all. He believed that a nonaggressive model would have a “aggression-inhibiting effect.” Bandura’s third proposition was that he thought that the children would be more apt to “imitate the behavior of the same-sex model to a greater degree than a model of the opposite sex.” And his last proposition is that since aggression is generally associated more often with a masculine male behavior that the boys would be more likely to imitate aggressive behavior shown by a male model than a girl would be. The independent variable in Bandura’s experiment would be the child’s aggression and the dependent variable would be the different models. Bandura’s experiment was set up by first having 36 boys and 36 girls for a total of 72 children who were all hand picked from the Stanford University Nursery School. The children they used all aged