Media influences on Aggression

In the specification, it mentions that you must specifically know about the effects of ___________ on aggression?

• Video games

• TV

• Film

• Computer games

Research into the effect of excessive TV viewing and aggression has found that...

• Time spent watching violent TV in childhood was a reliable predictor of aggression later in life.

• Time spent watching TV in childhood was a reliable predictor of aggression later in life.

• Time spent watching violent TV in childhood was not a reliable predictor of aggression later in life.

What is a strength of conducting longitudinal research? Explain 1.

How did Bandura investigate the effect of violent film content on aggression?

• Children watched a model act aggressively towards a doll, and then they were given the same opportunity to do the same.

• Children watched a film of a model act aggressively towards a doll, and then they were given the same opportunity to do the same.

• Children watched a model act aggressively towards a doll and get rewarded for it. They were then they were given the same opportunity to do the same.

According to a meta-analysis, media accounts for ____________ of variance in children's aggression

• 10-20%

• 15-20%

• 1-10%

• 50-60%

Computer games is perhaps more powerful than TV/film because...

• Players are passive

• Players can get punished

• Players take on a more active role

• It can be rewarding to the player (operant conditioning)

Bartholow & Anderson measured aggression as:

• Volume of white noise played

• Criminal convictions

• Beating a bobo doll

A problem with research that has only found a correlation between aggression and time spent playing violent video games (DeLisi et al) is...

A useful theory to explain the relationship between playing computer games and aggression is...

• Genetics

• Social learning theory

• Neurotransmitters

• Deprivation model

Many of the conclusions in this area are...

• Premature

• Unsupported

• Premature and unsupported