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Vicarious Punishment

Vicarious punishment is a factor that influences motivation in observational learning. It happens when an observer's motivation to copy a model's behavior decreases after witnessing the model being punished for that behavior. For instance, in the Bobo doll experiment, when children observed a teacher being punished for bad behavior, they decreased their tendency to act as she had.

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