TC 101 Lecture Notes - The Burning Bed, Albert Bandura, Social Learning Theory
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The doomsday flight: people call in to airports saying they put bombs on planes. The burning bed: women who were abused set husbands beds on fire. Natural born killer: people went on killing spree. Jackass: people started imitating stunt that on the movie. How much violence is there on tv- a lot. National television violence study [1998: content analysis- look at programs at a random sample and look to see violence on tv, 60% of television programs contain violence, 4-5 violent acts per program. Crime on tv is 10-15 times more prevalent on tv than it is in real life. Most children will see: 8000 murders, 100000 violent acts, 32 violent acts/hour of children"s programming, refers to physical violence, not emotional. On any given show: 60% contain violence, 1/3 contain violent interactions, 75% no punishment for violence **, suggests violence isn"t always bad, most of the time violence is very extreme.
