Children Would Model Aggressive Week 10 Midassign
Discipline:
Psychology
Type of service:
Essay
Spacing:
Double spacing
Paper format:
APA
Number of pages:
2 pages
Number of sources:
0 source
Paper detalis:
Inter-Rater Reliability
Reliability is very important to consider in research studies. There are
many different types of reliability and one type is called inter-rater
reliability. Inter-rater reliability studies are often conducted when
you have more than one person who will be evaluating and scoring data.
If inter-rater reliability is high, then different people are recording
approximately the same values for the behavior they are evaluating.
Many of you are familiar with Albert Bandura’s Bobo doll experiment in
1961. Bandura was a proponent of the social learning theory. In his
experiment, he attempted to determine if children would model aggressive
behavior.
Let’s say you are planning to conduct a modern-day social learning study
and plan to record and rate the aggressive interactions after children
have watched acts of violence on television. The potential acts of
aggression will be rated from video tapes of the children as they play
with a life-sized, blow-up toy. Before you conduct your study, you must
train your four research assistants to make sure that they are
identifying the same behaviors and end up with the same scores.
Create a report in a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with a
detailed description explaining how to train the assistants so that they
have high inter-rater reliability. Search the South University Online
Library to find some inter-rater reliability studies and see if you can
get any ideas. Make sure you operationalize aggression before you start
to explain your training plan. Be specific about what your research
assistants should do to increase the similarity of their rating scores.
Submit the reliability training plan for your research assistants.
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