PSYC 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Research On The Effects Of Violence In Mass Media, Prosocial Behavior
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Graph: peaks at age 12, there"s a dip at age 8 cause they tart going to school and don"t have time. More time watching tv is associated with worse achievement in school. Correlation not experimental design, can"t talk about causal relationship. But research has also shown positive effects associated with educational programs: ex. Sesame street associated with vocab growth and school readiness: *context matters. If tv is taking time displacing not doing anything on couch. Tastes/preferences: tv viewing might lead to a preference for tv over other mediums: distaste of books, view as boring. Desensitization watching tv violence might lessen children"s responses to violence. Cultivation children who watch tv might be more likely to view the world as including lots of violence. But, there is the flip-side of these mechanisms: watching prosocial acts on tv can lead to more prosocial behavior.
