A Congressional hearing is taking place in Washington, D.C. The representatives are discussing whether the portrayals of violence on children's TV shows are perhaps contributing to the actual violence we see in schools today

What psychological process are the representatives probably considering as the reason that TV influences school violence?
a) observational learning
b) operant conditioning
c) classical conditioning
d) insight learning

ANS: A, They are worried that children will imitate the aggression they see modeled on TV, which is a process called observational learning.

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