Assignment Number 16 Discussion/Writing Assignment Moeller Chapter 6. Television and media violence. Pages 141-154.

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 11-2-04 Psychology/Criminal Justice 317 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

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Please staple the questions to your answers or write out the questions as well as the answers. Having the questions available in the small group will facilitate discussion.

1.	What was your reaction to the lecture on Destructive Obedience? What was most important to you from the lecture? What will you take from this class from that lecture?
2.	What about the research design in Milgram's study of Destructive Obedience did you find compelling? Explain why.
3.	What was your reaction to the Bill Moyers' video on Sale of Assault Weapons to Terrorists? What was most important to you from the video? What will you take from this class from that video?
4.	Describe Berkowitz's cognitive neoassociative theory of anti-social influences of media events (See also cognitive priming, Moeller, pg. 147.
5.	Choose one of the theoretical explanations underlying the psychological processes of the effects of television and media violence on subsequent aggression (146-147). Describe that theory and describe an incident from personal experience or the media that illustrates that theory.