While 8-year-old Timmy watches violent cartoons, his mother asks him how he thinks the victims in the cartoons are feeling as a result of being subjected to violence. Later, Timmy goes to the park to play with other boys who also watched the cartoons. Compared with the children whose mothers didn’t say anything to them while they were watching violent cartoons, Timmy’s behavior in the park is likely to be
a. more aggressive because he has thought about violence more
b. more aggressive because of social cognitive theory
c. more aggressive because of psychological reactance
d. less aggressive because of his heightened empathy
Ans: D
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