Practice question · True or false
In the Bobo doll study, children imitated the aggressive model even though they themselves received no reinforcement for aggression.
Hints
- Recall who was (and was not) reinforced in the study.
- The children's own imitation occurred without any reward to them.
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True
Why
True. The children imitated the model's specific aggressive acts with no direct reinforcement of themselves - the finding that established observational learning as a distinct route, not reducible to direct reinforcement of the observer.
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