Week 2

Question 1

characteristics of the people playing violent video games

Answer 1

• men
• lower educated
• more aggressive
• more sensation seeking

Question 2

justification of violence in video games

Answer 2

1. violence is rewarded
2. attractive perpetrators
3. killing is shown as justified by storylines and committed for fun and distruction

Question 3

catharsis

Answer 3

resolving one’s own negative emotions through others’ emotions in ‘tragedy’

Question 4

aggresion

Answer 4

behavior aimed at intentionally causing harm or pain, psychological harm or personal injury or physical destruction

Question 5

General aggression model

Answer 5

person &situation

• -> present internal state(affect, arousal and cognition)
• -> appraisal & decision processes
• -> thoughtful OR impulsive action
• -> social encounter

Question 6

sad film paradox

Answer 6

sad moods can be appreciated on meta-level (feels good to feel sad, sad emotions positive related to enjoyment) - its a tender feeling

Question 7

eudaimonic happines

Answer 7

pursuit of personal fulfillment and personal growth

Question 8

hedonic happiness

Answer 8

maximize pleasure, minimize pain

Question 9

mixed affect

Answer 9

feeling happy and sad at the same time (its an emotional characteristic)

Question 10

existential insight

Answer 10

• “what is life all about?”
• moving and thought provoking
• impression lasting longer
• cognitive characteristic

Question 11

appreciation

Answer 11

the perception of a deeper meaning, the feeling of being moved and the motivation to elaborate on thoughts and feelings inspired by the experience

Question 12

narrative

Answer 12

2 definitions:

a serie of logically and chronological related events - Mieke Bal

A narrative is any cohesive and coherent story with an identifiable beginning, middle, and end that provides information about scene, characters, and conflict; raises unanswered questions or unresolved conflict; and provides resolution - Hinyard and Kreuter

Question 13

the four essential components of narrative

Answer 13

1. characters (protagonist. antagonist)
2. events (fictional, non-fictional)
3. temporal progression (chronological, non-chronological)
4. telling (first-person storytelling, or an unreliable narrator)

Question 14

the six shapes of a story

Answer 14

1. rags to riches (steady rise bad –> good, tragedy)
2. riches to rags (fall grom good –> bad)
3. icarus (rise, fall)
4. oedipus ( fall, rise, fall)
   5 cinderella (rise, fall, rise)
5. man in hole (fall, rise)

Question 15

difference between fabula and syuzhet

Answer 15

fabula: the actual plot, chronological events
syuzhet: the way it’s told/ organized in de movie

Question 16

narrative engagement characteristics

Answer 16

1. focused attention - “I found my mind wandering while the program was on”
2. narrative understanding - “At points, I had a hard time making sense of what was going on in the program”
3. emotional engagement - “The story affected me emotionally”
4. narrative presence - “During the program, my body was in the room, but my mind was inside the world created by the story”

Question 17

effects of narrative engagement

Answer 17

• higher level of enjoyment

- story consistent attitudes (able to persuade)