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Study Questions Number 15 |
Date: 10-28-04 Psychology/Criminal Justice 317 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
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| 1. | Researchers estimate that ____ acts of violence occur in children's television programming and that the average child will have viewed _____ murders and ________ violent acts on television by the time he or she completes elementary school (127). | ||
| 2. | Correlational studies between viewing violence on television and aggressive behavior led Freedman to draw what conclusion? (128) | ||
| 3. | Belson tested 25 major hypotheses about viewing violence on on television and aggressive behavior in both the "forward" and the "reverse" form among 1,500 London males between the ages of 12 and 17. What was the "forward" form? What was the "reverse" form? What did Belson find? What was his conclusion? (128-129) | ||
| 4. | Describe the six-country cross-national studies of violence on television and aggressive behavior. What conclusions were reached? What evidence led to those conclusions? (129-131) | ||
| 5. | Four meta-analyses of violence on television and aggressive behavior. What conclusions were reached by Moeller in this review? (132-135) | ||
| 6. | Compare the effect sizes in the four meta-analyses of violence on television and aggression with the effect size of parental supervision on children's aggression. What are those effect sizes? What conclusion would you reach? (135) | ||
| 7. | What conclusion does Moeller reach from the numerous correlational, quasiexperimental, and panel studies on the the relationship between viewing violence on television and subsequent aggressive behavior? (135) | ||
| 8. | Describe Moeller's critique of Belson's associational studies. What reasons did Moeller have for his conclusion? (136) | ||
| 9. | Describe the laboratory studies of viewing violence on television and subsequent aggression. What conclusion did Moeller reach? (136-137) | ||
| 10. | Describe the "Notel" study of viewing violence on television and subsequent aggression. What reasons mitigate against interpreting this study as evidence in support of violence on television causing violence. | ||