In Bandura's classic study of children exposed to a film of an adult model hitting an inflated doll, both the children who saw the model rewarded and the children who saw the model punished ________
a. imitated the aggressive behavior they had seen
b. performed equally aggressively in a free play situation
c. learned nothing about the capacity to be aggressive
d. refused to behave aggressively in a free play situation
Answer: a
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