Media Violence(3) Flashcards
What is the basic finding about the level of violence within the media?
Media is replete(well-supplied) with violent crimes
-television: police procedures
-Films: varied forms but ever present
-news: often the lead story
What is a social learning agent? Can media be one?
you learn by watching(and reading and viewing)
-yes media can serve as a social learning agent
What is social learning theory?
a learning process social behavior which proposes that new behaviors can be acquired by observing and imitating others
What are the 4 learning steps within social cognitive theory?
Attention–>Retention–>Production–>Motivation
What is Cultivation Hypothesis?
heavy media consumers are more likely than light or moderate consumers to think that media are a reflection of reality
What was the Bobo doll study? What did the study demonstrate?
-kids that watched(violent) filmed played more and were more aggressive with the doll
-kids in control group played less and were less aggressive with doll
-demonstrated the impact of media(in a more negative way)
What are mainstreaming and resonance? How do we investigate this?
repeated themes and repeated exposure strengthen beliefs
-use surveys and content analysis to investigate
What is the Aggressor Effect?
exposure to violent media increase aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors(demonstrated accessibility and activation)
What is Priming?
Activation of a concept makes them more accessible and more likely to be used in the short-term
What is Cognitive Disinhibition?
lack of consequences or positive rewards lower inhibitions toward aggression
What is Excitation Transfer?
Physiological arousal transferred to next stimulus often in same affective valence direction
What is the mean world syndrome? Where did it emerge from?
repeated exposure to violent media leads to an overestimation of real world violence and victimhood
-emerged from cultivation
What is the Conscious Numbing Effect and its outcomes?
exposure to violent media:
-reduces empathy, reduces sensitivity, reinforces rape myth acceptance
What is the “Box of Masculinity”?
The “box” that men/boys are put into where they aren’t supposed to show emotion, and are told don’t think too much, never back down, be sexually aggressive with women
What is the problem with relying on the argument that men are predisposed to be violent? Why is this a damaging argument to focus on?
-it makes it seem like its inevitable for men to be violent
-damaging because it causes us to overlook the fundamental role that cultural systems play
What are the three facets of desensitization?
- more calloused(insensitive/emotionally hardened) attitudes toward violence directed toward others
- Lower physiological and emotional response to violence
- Lower Likelihood to intervene
How are masculinity, mental illness, and media violence tied together?
mental illness is seen as non-masculine, and media violence allowed the portrayal of “strong” men, pushing for less focus on men’s mental health issues
What is the “tough guise”?
the front young men put up to shield their vulnerabilities to avoid being seen as “soft” or “weak”
What is the “cool pose” and how does it relate to race and socio-economic status?
The “cool pose” is a hypermasculine menacing persona that is often adopted by men that come from a non-white race or a lower socio-economic status in order to prove that they are “worthy men”
How does the Bushmaster ad reflect the cultural belief system about manhood and violence?
it connected manhood to guns, and that violence should be the first method to prove a man’s masculinity
What is “covert depression” and what effects does it have?
it’s less noticeable depression that men face that causes them to have violent outbursts/anger, and overlooks the depression with masculine fear
