JOURN 616 Final: Study Guide 616

• School: UW-Madison
• Department: Journalism and Mass Communication
• Course: JOURN 616
• Professor: Kirkorian Heather

Document Summary

Violence: visual portrayals or acts of physical aggression by one human or. Aggression: physical or non-physical act intended to injure or irritate another. Relational aggression: damaging someone"s relationships or social status human-like character against another person. By the end of elementary school, kids are exposed to thousands of murders and violent acts. Kids who play videogames are exposed to even more. Depiction violence (and it"s rewarded) don"t see gore, you don"t see suffering. Glamorized- could be heroes, the attractive characters who participate in. Sanitized- you"re not seeing the consequences of the violence (physical), you. Trivialized- making violence look funny/goofy (especially in kid"s tv) More likely to imitate attractive models (models they want to be like), Social cognitive theory: imitation of tv models rewarded actions (if you watch somebody engage in violence and they are punished- they don"t participate in this, and vice versa)