Co-observer evaluations affected the imitation of older children when they were alone, but not that of younger children. (Author)

Study was conducted to determine the effect a rule had on a child who was subsequently exposed to conforming or deviant verbalizations and/or behavior displayed by a televised peer model. (Author)

The acquisition of aggressive responses may likely be a function of the environment's copious provision of imitative models. (Author)

Elementary school children of both sexes (n=132) saw a male peer film model either rewarded or punished for touching prohibited toys. The model either smiled, cried, or showed no reaction, and subsequently had a differential influence on the behavior of children who observed. (NH)

In this study boys were exposed to a televised verbal peer model who conformed to or deviated from a prohibition rule. (Author)

Maintains that (1) research questions must address intra- and extraorganism contextual relations and must be multidisciplinary in scope; (2) research must be sensitive to contextual variability and individual differences; and (3) scholars must develop empirically generative models linking the development of human beings with changing contexts. (BC)