Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Disinhibition, Prime Time, Frontal Lobe

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: All

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Planning a career in psychology- look it up on google. Joyce is opposed to abortion, but in a social psychology study the experimenter told her she had to write an essay in favour of abortion and sign it. Counteracting obedience: milgram studies, personal responsibility, obedience drops dramatically, disobedient models, 2 confederate refuse, obedience drops to 10% Television: 99% of households have at least one tv set, more than households with a bathtub or telephone, on average, set is on 7 hours a day in america, who watches more, women, preschoolers, retired people. If you want something, use violence & get it. If someone is bad, use violence against them to punish them. Average of 23. 39 per hour: ptc (2013, gun or bladed weapon every 3 mins, criminal minds, average of 52. 8 acts of violence per episode (1 every 68 seconds) Does tv violence cause aggression: research evidence, modelling studies, laboratory studies, long-term field studies.