Psychology Flashcards
What’s vicarious reinforcement?
Learning from someone from the things they have done right or wrong?
What’s a role model?
Someone we look up too
What’s the amygdala?
The amygdala is a structure in the brain that recognises emotion
The amygdala is a part of the brain that’s likely to be responsible for
Aggression
Who inspired Anderson and Dills study?
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
What’s an independent variable?
The factor which is changed by the researcher in an experiment to make two or more conditions.
What’s the dependent variable?
The factor which is measured in an experiment
In Anderson and Dills study, what was the non- violent game used?
Myst- a 3D interactive non violent nature game
In Anderson and Dills study, what was the violent game used?
Wolfenstien 3D- selected because of its violent content, realism and human characters
During Anderson’s and Dills study what was the cover story?
“The learning curve”
-they told them they were studying how people learn and do motor tasks and cognitive tasks
In Anderson and Dills study the participants were selected by?
Their trait irritability score
In Anderson and Dills study what happened after 15 minuets of playing?
They played a competitor reaction test game against the ‘opponent’
In Anderson and Dills theory, what could the Person who pressed the button fastest do?
Inflict a blast of white noise volume and duration decided by winner
In Anderson and Dills study what were 2 of the results?
The loudest and longest blasts were given by the people who played Wolfenstien 3D (the violent game)
Women gave greater punishments than men
What was the conclusion in Anderson and Dills study?
Playing violent video games increase levels of aggression, particularly in women
