PSY 606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Albert Bandura, Family Therapy, Anxiety Disorder
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Freud"s contributions: talk therapy, unconscious mind, childhood development. Ptsd (fear/hyperarousal) can be beneficial or adaptive too as it can somehow afterwards acquire this insight/post-traumatic growth. Bobo doll experiment in which children learn by watching others and the consequences of certain behaviours good/bad) Individual differences in perceptions and interpretations of the media violence. Some children influenced by t. v/movies while some others (different personalities) Is violence portrayed in the home or not? (family effects as well) If grown in violent neighbourhood, children will be desensitized to the violence (in toronto shootings are normal, but in small town it will make front cover of newspaper) If we do not know how to behave, we can behave how we see people behave on t. v. Prisoner/guard simulation experiment in stanford lead guard didn"t originally know how to behave but watched a violent movie, learned and modelled that behaviour well. Children learn attitudes, behavioural norms, and that aggression leads to solutions of problems.
