media influences

Question 1

desensitisation

Answer 1

repeated exposure to violence decreases anxiety therefore reduces the physiological arousal - becomes the norm

Question 2

disinbition

Answer 2

restraints against using agg are weakened using vio medis making it socially acceptable\

Question 3

Cog priming

Answer 3

Viewing aggressive media gives us a scrip on how a situation begins - stored in memory and makes us ready to retrieve memeory

Question 4

Strengths

Answer 4

Desensitisation- Carnegy
Iv= violent then a 10 min clip of violence
Dv= physiological desensitisation

Findings - those who played vio games had a lower heart rate when watching real violence

Strength - bushman
Ppts who watched a violent film responded more quickest to aggressive words

Strength - cog priming

Asher and greitmeyer
Aim- priming of scrips of aggreive song lyrics
Procedure - male opts listened to neutral songs and then aggressive songs about women
Findings - ppts who listened to aggressive songs recalled more negative words about women

Strength - disinbition
Granson- showed ppts a film of a box match in one condition there was no apparent consequence and in the 2nd condition the loser took a beating
Found that those who didn’t see the consequences were more aggressive

Shows that disinbition may be far more likely in violent media