PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Longitudinal Study, Psy, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Sirena Ibrahim

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By end of elementary school, average us child has seen 8,000 murders, and. 58% of all tv programs contain violence. 40% of the (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374)(cid:272)ide(cid:374)ts are i(cid:374)itiated (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:862)hero(cid:863) (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ters. High correlation between media violence and real-world aggression. Strengthens with age as time goes on. Aggressive models increase aggressive behavior among children and adults. Models can be live or on film. Bandura et al (1963): bobo doll 4 conditions. Result: exhibited aggression after all 3 aggression models; no aggression. Does watching violence on tv increase aggressive behavior? in non-aggressive model. Dv: aggressive behavior (playing with other children) Results: those who watched violent tv shows behaved more aggressively. Exposure to tv violence at ages 6-9 positively correlated with aggression as an adult. 15 year longitudinal study of 329 youth (huesmann, et al 2003) O(cid:272)ial status as (cid:373)easured (cid:271)(cid:455) their pare(cid:374)ts" edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374)/o(cid:272)(cid:272)upatio(cid:374) Men high in tv violence as youth more likely to have: Responded to an insult by shoving a person.