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WorksheetsMedia influences on Aggression
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
Ways of measuring aggression in studies are...
Highly consistent
Many and varied
Identical
Can you suggest an explanation for why media can influence aggression? Provide one explanation.
