Case study 2: mass media

Question 1

How much on average per day do 8-12 year olds spend on screens?

Answer 1

5 hrs 55 mins media

4 hrs 26 min screen time

Question 2

13-18 year olds?

Answer 2

8 hrs 56 mins media

6hrs 40 mins screen time

Question 3

Huson 1992 estimated by the age of 18 US children have witnessed how many acts of violence and how many murders on TV?
Most recent estimate re murders?

Answer 3

200,000 acts of violence
8,000 murders

recent- 40,000 murders

Question 4

What did the Neilson Poll find?

Answer 4

huge increase in internet use, no corresponding drop in other media use

Question 5

How many years of violent media research?

Answer 5

60

Question 6

What was Arnold Scwarzenegger and Edmund Brown v Video Software Dealers Associations

Answer 6

• US supreme court

- case regarding fines selling violent video games to minors

Question 7

Discuss the Gruel Brief vs the Millett Brief?

Answer 7

• re case
• Gruel- researchers, 102 signees (all scholars) saying that VVGs caused aggression
• Millett 82 signees, not all scholars, saying that it didn’t
• seems like the academic community is evenly split

Question 8

What was the truth re the Gruel Brief vs Millett?

Answer 8

• not actually split

- most people believed it did cause aggression

Question 9

Discuss the short term effects of violent media

Answer 9

• increase in aggressive behavior (mild)

- emotional desensitization to violence

Question 10

Discuss the long term effects of violent media

Answer 10

• accumulative
• more fearful
• emotional desensitization to violence
• hostile attributional bias
• increase in normative beliefs approving aggression
• aggressive problem solving scripts

Question 11

What is hostile attributional bias?

Answer 11

tendency to see ambiguous things as someone trying to hurt you

Question 12

What is a long term effect of violent media that is 100% supported yet

Answer 12

-increased appetite for aggressive media- you want more once you start watching it

Question 13

Discuss the risk factor approach

Answer 13

• violent media is never sufficient on its own to cause people to be aggressive/violent on its own
• but is a contributor

Question 14

How big of a risk factor is violent media in aggression?

Answer 14

-stronger risk factor for aggression that abusive parenting, violent neighbourhood, across 7 nations

Question 15

Discuss the study of John Murray re brain and violent media

Answer 15

-people watched three clips: violent, non-violent and fixation

Question 16

John Murray’s study on brains found what side of the hemisphere was most activated?

Answer 16

right

Question 17

What is found consistently in most brain mapping re violent media?

Answer 17

reduced activation in the frontal lobe

Question 18

What are three other psychological acquisitions of aggression re violent media?

Answer 18

• imitation
• aggression rewarded not punished
• pairing of aggressive behavior with multiple cues

Question 19

Discuss psychological remediation study

Answer 19

• maximum security forensic hospital
• measures aggression in 222 patients for 33 weeks
• removed MTV
• measured aggression after 22 weeks

Question 20

What happened in the psychological remediation study (hospital study)

Answer 20

-significant reduction in aggressive behaviour