Key Question

Question 1

What is the key question

Answer 1

Is children’s behaviour affected by what they see and hear in the media (media violence)

Question 2

Social learning theory

Answer 2

• possible for children to observe and imitate what they see and hear in the media
• role models on tv will display a certain behaviour and children will therefore they will pay attention to this behaviour, retain the info, reproduce the behaviour and be motivated to imitate it

Question 3

Bandura, Ross and Ross (1961)

Answer 3

• bobo doll study demonstrated SLT when they found that children that observed and adult playing with a bobo doll aggressively, they imitated that behaviour

Question 4

Operant conditioning

Answer 4

• if children are not punished or negatively reinforced on violent behaviour from an early age then the behaviour may continue
• if the child is positively reinforced to become aggressive from their parents then they are more likely to be aggressive