PSYC 106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Herd Mentality, Social Loafing, Social Comparison Theory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 106
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

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Study questions lecture 1: in many respects, media psychology is an old field. Study questions lecture 2: (note that all explanations should relate to media psychology). If we see this often enough, we internalize these scripts and it affects our own actions in everyday life: gad model and scripts: one common concern is that children who play violent videogames will become violent. Based on the idea of scripts this is quite possible. Anxiety and other psychological factors may make the child more vulnerable to violence: assumption that the brain treats fictional and real-world violence in the same way, our brains do not. This makes us more vulnerable to persuasion: we adopt all of what we see on tv into our everyday lives, this is (cid:374)ot (cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)ily t(cid:396)ue. If (cid:449)e see a se(cid:396)ial kille(cid:396) o(cid:374) tv (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t adopt psychopathic tendencies and become a serial killer ourselves: assumes that, describe limited effects theory.