... are lacking time and money. There are, however some problems of snapshot studies, like the one carried out by Bandura. 1. Snapshot studies are time specific; this means that the results are dependant on whatever is going on at the time. For example the mood of the participants or experimenter can change on a daily basis and therefore affect the results, because it can change the way people behave or change the way that the experimenter will look at the data. Cultural change over time may also have an affect on the results or the interpretation of the results. In the Bandura study things could have happened to affect the behaviour of the children e.g. they had been told off by the parents that morning. This may have made the child more aggressive than it would usually have been which would show that child as being more aggressive and so affecting ...

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