Media - influences on pro-social behaviour Flashcards

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Sprafkin - SLT

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  • children watched one of 3 films
  • first film was Lassie; boy risked his life to save puppy
  • second was episode of Lassie; positive messages about dogs
  • third was family based situation comedy
  • children took part in button pressing game where they could win prizes
  • asked to press button if they heard puppy barking in distress; would stop the game and stop winning prizes
  • children in group A chose to help the puppy more quickly and for longer periods of time; became sensitised to the puppy?
  • lab experiment; lack ecological validity
  • PSB observed and displayed was similar to hard to generalise to different contexts
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Ostrov - SLT

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  • assessed educational TV viewing in children by questioning their parents
  • followed them over two years and measured pro-social behaviour by observation
  • viewing educational media designed to demonstrate PSB was associated with a higher frequency of PSB
  • children were more likely to imitate same sex models
  • relied on parent testimony
  • only shows association, not causality
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Shelton and Rogers - sensitisation

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  • showed participants video of industrial whaling

- enhanced empathy for whales

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