MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY- media influences on social behaviour

Question 1

what is pro social behaviour?

Answer 1

good behaviour

Question 2

what are examples of pro social behaviour under adolescence?

Answer 2

punctuality manners negotiation respect tolerance cooperative play obedience

Question 3

what are examples of shows with pro social behaviour?

Answer 3

sesame ‘sharing’ ‘fluffy characterssesame ‘ raise your hand’ ‘celeb exposing kids to messages they will acquire’he man (violence w/cartoon)- address violence - pro social messages eyecontact

Question 4

what theory connects with media messages?

Answer 4

social learning theory (bandura)

Question 5

what does the social learning theory mean?

Answer 5

learn via observation of role models (identify with)

Question 6

how does children connect with slt?

Answer 6

children will retain what they see pn tv and imitate behaviour in similar sit if think rewarded

Question 7

why is anti social behaviour greater than pro social behaviour?

Answer 7

media bias as anti social is better story political agenda - tv dangerous-watershedpressure on religious groups- tv dangerous for kids in 80s - 90s

Question 8

what are the 4 explanation on prosocial behaviour?

Answer 8

kunkel et al 1996- 1 of 3rd of programmes show at least one act of violence and it misintrepts , not take in account all ages, only certain programme, temporal validity,conducted by adults not children.

Question 9

what is the main study for exposure? (COMMENTARY)

Answer 9

woodard - in pre school kids programms 77% shown atleast one prosocial act howwver a study conducted and 4 ut of 20 top most watched programmes rarely shown prosocial acts

Question 10

what is acquistion?

Answer 10

if role model does prosocial behaviour more likely to repeart it if rewarded children (vicarious reinforcement) repeat prosocial acts tend to repeat social norms we already know pro social>anti argument mares &woodard concrete acts/ abstract acts however

Question 11

what is the argument with acquisition? (COMMENTARY)

Answer 11

sprafkin- tv actions discussion help children understand behaviour to store in ltm for situations

Question 12

what is developmental factors?

Answer 12

aimed at age appropraite, younger less affected than older or other way round (mares)

Question 13

what is parental mediation?

Answer 13

parents watch the shows w kids i.e watch with mother and fake cakeaustin -parents sat and explained =more undertsand diff tyes

Question 14

types of b associated with prosocial?

Answer 14

altriusm, self control, anti stereotyping and positive interaction

Question 15

what is altriusm?

Answer 15

sharing, cost to individ who completes task - effects of tv on altruisc behaviours is that involved in explicit modelling of very specific behaviours

Question 16

example of atriusm study?

Answer 16

paoulous et al 5-8 year olds watch lassie -= cant relate as lassie dog and not represented for all tv

Question 17

what is self control?

Answer 17

task resistence/resistence to temptation

Question 18

example of self control?- researcher MARES

Answer 18

mares found that when exposed to tv model demonstrating self control increase in children showung self control in own behaviour

Question 19

example of self control?- researcher FREIDICH AND STEIN

Answer 19

friedich and stein- 4 year old children that watched mr rogers for 4 weeks with positive task teneded to show more task persitence/obediance tha watchin neutral aggressive programmes over same time period

Question 20

what is positive interaction?

Answer 20

friendly interaction etc

Question 21

example of positive interaction?

Answer 21

freidch and stein as part of previous study, as ha obsrves watch children pay counting aggressive behaviours and freindly behaviour etc, those who watched proscial= more positive than those = neutral

Question 22

example of antistereotyping?

Answer 22

johnston and ettema freestyle a programme to reduce sterotpes of gender which were then broken and changed.

Question 23

anti social behaviour intro?

Answer 23

agressive acts are in cartoons (freview avail to anyone) programmes- tracy beaker -horrid henry concrete behaviours but also have lovelace and huston - mixed messages

Question 24

meta analysi for aggressive b?

Answer 24

paik and comstock

Question 25

outline meta analysis

Answer 25

meta analysis- paik and comstock examined whether children exposed to violent behavuor on tv behave more aggressively immediately afterwards217 btw violence and aggressive band found a highly significant relationship between two. greateast for preschool children

Question 26

explanations for anti social?

Answer 26

cognitive priming, desensitisation and observational learning

Question 27

what is o.l?

Answer 27

we learn aggressive behaviour from observing on tv nd imitating especially if can easily idetnify with people portraying acts such as same age or gender said that f character recieves a reward imitated more.

Question 28

eval of o.l?

Answer 28

although correlation between too it might be that aggressive people choose to watch violent programmes huesmann - reports that children use tv models to direct own actions, suggesting media are sources of socal learning

Question 29

what is desensitisation?

Answer 29

-desensitisation-watching violent acts all the time less likely to react franzoi we gradually become less responsive to vilent acts cause weve seen it so many times on tv

Question 30

what is eval?

Answer 30

eval: most research not been represetnative samples mainly boys been usedbeta bias as it minisming differenfce btw men and women

Question 31

what is cognitive priming?

Answer 31

cognitive priming - watching violence leads to people storing memories of violent acts for later sit. when person watches violent the viwer is primed to respond in simlar way.

Question 32

eval for cog priming?

Answer 32

if people can from scripts for anti they can do it for pro