Psychology 3720F/G Lecture 11: 3720 CHAPTER 5

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3720F/G
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

Document Summary

Chapter 5- media violence and aggression: focusing on tv, movies, and video games as the most widely used media, but also including music, children and adolescents are seen as particularly vulnerable to media in uences. Prevalence and use of violent media contents: two premises to claim that media violence produces harmful effects on viewers, evidence is required to show that violence and aggression are widely prevalent in media programs. 2003, and it was found that 58% of all programs contained at least one violent episode and. Chapter 5- media violence and aggression: smith and boyson found an average rate of violent content of music videos to be around. Class teachers provided ratings of aggressive and prosocial behaviour for each. The more media violence the students used, the higher their aggressive behaviour and the lower their prosocial behaviour as rated by their teacher. All participants played the same racing game, but were exposed to 3 different conditions.