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6. What did Bartlett et al find?

  • Mortal Combat video game: violent fighting scenes made children upset
  • Only boys who play video games experience aggressive thoughts
  • Mortal Combat video game: the more graphic blood led to more aggressive thoughts
  • Video games were unlikely to cause aggressive thoughts

7. Which study disagrees with this theory?

  • Rosenthal & Jacobsen
  • Charlton
  • Madon
  • Yarmey

8. What results did Rideout et al find?

  • Adults watch around 50+ hours of TV a week
  • Children watch up to 40 hours of TV a week
  • People watch around 38 hours of TV a week, and kids watch around 25 a week
  • TV is no longer a large part of everyday life

9. What are the 3 important factors which determine whether or not behaviour is copied?

  • Personality, biology and upbringing
  • Vicarious learning, external motivation and self-reinforcement
  • Internal emotions, external motivation and parental influence
  • Economic factors, vicarious learning and upbringing

10. What could the media do to individuals rather than make them a criminal?

  • More likely to make them upset
  • More likely to make them fear being a victim
  • More likely to make them angry at criminals
  • More likely to make them disappointed in police

11. Social learning theory was theorised by who?

  • Bartlett
  • Bandura
  • Rosenthal & Jacobsen
  • Pickel

12. What is the key element of social learning theory?

  • The individual must have criminal parents
  • The individual must have a bad experience which makes them want to be a criminal
  • The individual must observe criminal behaviour directly or indirectly so that it can be remembered and reproduced
  • The individual must be a loner