Let us say that we want to study violence in young children. We go to a pre-school setting where we set up a large, soft plastic doll and arrange for an adult to punch it. Later, we observe how often individual children hit the doll. The measure of hitting the doll is:
A) a direct test of violence in children.
B) unacceptable under ethical guidelines.
C) bad luck for the doll.
D) an experimental analogue of aggression.
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