Preschool Ss interacted with an adult female model who was either rewarding or nonrewarding and whose control over the S's future resources was either high or low. Thereafter, the Ss participated with the model in a game during which she behaved towards the S in ways designed to be directly aversive for him (e.g., stern criticism and imposed delay of reward) and also displayed novel neutral behaviors. Later, in the model's absence, an experimental confederate provided stimuli that permitted S to reproduce the model's behaviors. Measures were taken of the S's rehearsal of the model's neutral and aversive behaviors and of his transmission of these behaviors to the confederate. Both rewardingness and control enhanced behavior rehearsal, and Ss rehearsed both neutral and aversive behaviors most frequently when the model was high in rewardingness and control and least frequently when both these variables were low. The transmission of aversive behaviors was increased by the model's initial rewardingness but not by her control. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)