Media Influences on Aggression

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  • Created on: 16-11-22 20:27
what does current society consist of?
media saturated
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list the 3 main theories
desensitisation
disinhibition
cognitive priming
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whats desensitisation?
continuous exposure to an agg stimulus causes a response to that stimulus to decrease overtime, normally SNS switches in response to agg ie heart rate increases which was adaptive for ancestors but now individuals will not respond to agg with-
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-psychological arousal but rather they will accept the agg and respond to agg when they can
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what's disinhibition?
idea that agg becomes normal in some situations.
ie becoming agg due to revenge response justified (superheroes analogy for media)
learnt through imitation, modelling and reinforcement (agg rewarded)
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what's cognitive priming?
children exposed to 8000 murders and 100,000 acts of agg (Huston et al), cp is when media provides scripts of responses to agg
priming effects on media images on previously learnt behaviours or cognitive schemas ie-
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-computer games, child has an internal schema that agg should be done to win a game
children from young age have a potential variety of violent scripts to guide behaviour, they select scripts and depending on the situations, they take part as an actor
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this can occur with or without conscious thought + become an automatic response to cues in environment
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name the evaluations
+weisz and earls, 86 m/106 f, movies, 1. sexual agg against m, 2.sexual agg against f, 3.physical agg, 4.neutral film, after film pp completed questionnaire on violence, ****, etc, pp then watched a **** trial and completed another q-
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-found m more accepting of **** myths, more attracted to sexual agg, less sympathetic to **** victims, accepting of agg (-ecological validity in lab, gender bias) (desensitisation)
-Berkowitz and Alioto found pp gave more electric-
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-shocks after watching a film about revenge (lab exp) (disinhibition)
+practical applications, army hires from those who play more agg video games as it makes them have no response to agg in war (disinhibition)
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-Fischer and Greiemeyer found male pp who were exposed to agg song lyrics about f more likely to give higher levels of hot child sauce to f confederates, misogynistic lyrics also resulted in m recalling negative attributes about f (+same found for f) (des
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