The answer is "they were more likely to treat the doll aggressively themselves when they had the chance to play with it".
The Bobo doll experiment was the aggregate name of examinations led by Albert Bandura in 1961 and 1963 when he considered youngsters' conduct in the wake of viewing a grown-up show act forcefully towards a Bobo doll, a toy that gets up without anyone else's input to a standing position when it is thumped down.
