media influences on anti-soical behaviour
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 31-05-15 14:02
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- Media influences on anti-social behaviour
- Acting in a manner that caused or was likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more persons
- moise et al suggested 5 ways in which media influences anti-social behaviour
- Observational learning and imitation
- Bandura and ross demonstrated vicarious reinforcement
- operant conditioning suggests that such behaviour would not be positively reinforced in the real world
- ethical issues
- demand characteristics
- eg knowledge of the doll
- Jamie Bulger
- killed by two ten year olds who were said to be imitating behaviour they'd seen the film ' childs play
- Philips examined crime statistics after a televises heavyweight contest
- significant increase in murders ten days following
- little increase after the super bowl
- naturalistic experiment
- high ecological validity
- correlational
- cause and effect not established
- eg increase in temperature can increase violence
- cause and effect not established
- reductionist
- cognitive factors eg perception of violence
- Bandura and ross demonstrated vicarious reinforcement
- Cognitive priming
- triggered aggressive thoughts
- these aggressive thoughts make people more likely to go and commit aggressive acts
- Josephson
- hockey players were made to watch a film showing violent content
- the actor was holding a walkie- talkie
- they then played a game of hockey where the referee had a walkie talkie
- those whod witnessed a violent film and were exposed to the walkie talkie were more violent
- the walkie talkie was a cue for aggression
- those whod witnessed a violent film and were exposed to the walkie talkie were more violent
- they then played a game of hockey where the referee had a walkie talkie
- the actor was holding a walkie- talkie
- field experiment
- high ecological validity
- less control of extraneous variables
- biased sample
- hockey can be an aggressive sport
- hockey players were made to watch a film showing violent content
- Desensitisation
- frequent viewing may lead to the child becoming less anxious about violence
- view violence as the norm
- more likely to engage in aggressive acts
- however this may of been influences by their upbringing
- leading to them watching more aggressive tv
- dr cumberbatch argues this makes the child more frightened than frightening
- gradual commitment
- milgram
- influences and increase in the violent programmes watched
- milgram
- lower physiological arousal
- moise
- boys who are heavy tv viewers show a reduced physiological arousal to scenes of violence
- gender biased
- boyles found this common
- due to biological factors
- boyles found this common
- self perception theory
- a weak attitude to violence would lead to us using our response to form our attitude
- cultivation theory
- moise
- justification
- the use of aggression by pro-social characters leads to an aura of moral justification
- for example there are n consequences for james bond when he kills the bad guys
- low everyday life application
- Observational learning and imitation
- singer
- cartharsis
- viewing of aggression allows us to release aggression that has build up
- beneficial effect
- viewing of aggression allows us to release aggression that has build up
- cartharsis
- Charlton et al
- st Helena project
- very little change in the level of crime
- tv first introduced in 1995
- st Helena project
- biological factors into aggression
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