PS276- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 131 pages long!)
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3 components of the study of adolescence: fundamental changes, contexts, and psychosocial developments of adolescence. Nature vs nurture heories: biological, organismic, learning, sociological and historical-anthropological approaches. Seeing media violence should lead people to experience it themselves symbolically or vicariously and thus it should lead people watching violence to be less violent themselves. Watching violence leads observer to imitate that behaviour, watching violence = acting violently. Helps figure out causation but does not rule out possibility that some other factor may be involved. Only through experiments/manipulating one of the variables and then observing changes in the other, can we determine causation. Supports prediction that child viewers of media violence are influenced to become more aggressive and imitate what they see (bobo doll study, disinhibition) However experiments may not be a valid assessment of what happens in real life. Lifespan theorists view development as a process that continues throughout the entire life cycle. 3 general sources of influence on development through life:
