Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Parents Television Council, Disinhibition
23 Jul 2013
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The matching hypothesis: bersheid et al (1977) We prefer the best but choose similar to yourself: seems to hold in lab and many real world setting, cash and derlega (1978) By the age of 5, you spend 2-3 hours a day. By the age of 10, you spend 4-6 hours a day. By the age of 16, you witnessed more than 13,000 murders. By the age of 18, more time watching tv than in school: 99% of all households have at least one tv set. More than households with bathtub or telephone. Woman, preschoolers, retired people: tv content. Barker and ball (1969), waters and malamud (1975) 8 out of 10 shows contain violence. Act of violence occurs every 16 minutes. Good guys are as violent as bad guys. About 50% of killers do not suffer. Most people believe there is too much violence on tv even though they watch it. Whites do not get killed as non-whites.
