EDKP 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Prosocial Behavior, Wearable Technology, Experiment

• School: McGill University
• Department: Kinesiology and Physical Ed
• Course: EDKP 206
• Professor: Ted Milner

Document Summary

Television: learning from media: what is the average hours a child watches, average preschooler watches 15 to 20 hours of tv a week! Power rangers. (adapted from boyatzis et al. , 1995: boys who watched power rangers demonstrated more aggressive response. Just as kids can learn aggression, they can unlearn! Observation of nonaggressive models leads to reduced aggression levels. Imitation of violence: bobo-doll study, (cid:862)good guys(cid:863, child(cid:396)e(cid:374) i(cid:373)itate (cid:448)iole(cid:374)(cid:272)e, espe(cid:272)ially (cid:449)he(cid:374) it"s pe(cid:396)pet(cid:396)ated (cid:271)y the (cid:862)good guys(cid:863) Huesmann longitudinal correlational stufy: amount of tv violence children watched. Levels of aggression: followed for 15 years. Desensitizing agent: arousal & tolerance (desensitizing agent, watching a lot of media violence causes viewers to become less aroused by aggression. & more tolerant of violent and aggressive acts: mean-world-hypothesis, tendency to view the world as a violent place inhabited by people who typically rely on aggressive solutions to their interpersonal problems.