The segment you're about to see is taken from an early experiment on learning of aggressive styles of behavior. through modeling. Children watched a filmed adult perform novel aggressive acts toward a inflated doll and the physical aggression was accompanied by novel hostile remarks. We later measured how much of this modeled aggression the children had learned just by watching.
Now, the measurement of learning of aggression uses simulated targets rather than live ones. For example, to test how well bombardiers have learned to attack the enemy, bombing strategies, you would use simulated targets rather than require them to bomb San Francisco or New York. The model pummeled the doll with a mallet, flung it in the air, kicked it repeatedly.
threw it down and beat it. It was once widely believed that seeing others vent aggression would drain the viewers aggressive drive. As you can see exposure to aggressive modeling is hardly cathartic.
Exposure to aggressive modeling increased attraction to guns, even though it was never modeled. Guns had less appeal to children who had no exposure to the aggressive modeling. The children also picked up the novel hostile language. The room contained varied play materials.