Media Violence(3)

Question 1

What is the basic finding about the level of violence within the media?

Answer 1

Media is replete(well-supplied) with violent crimes
-television: police procedures
-Films: varied forms but ever present
-news: often the lead story

Question 2

What is a social learning agent? Can media be one?

Answer 2

you learn by watching(and reading and viewing)
-yes media can serve as a social learning agent

Question 2

What is social learning theory?

Answer 2

a learning process social behavior which proposes that new behaviors can be acquired by observing and imitating others

Question 3

What are the 4 learning steps within social cognitive theory?

Answer 3

Attention–>Retention–>Production–>Motivation

Question 4

What is Cultivation Hypothesis?

Answer 4

heavy media consumers are more likely than light or moderate consumers to think that media are a reflection of reality

Question 5

What was the Bobo doll study? What did the study demonstrate?

Answer 5

-kids that watched(violent) filmed played more and were more aggressive with the doll
-kids in control group played less and were less aggressive with doll
-demonstrated the impact of media(in a more negative way)

Question 6

What are mainstreaming and resonance? How do we investigate this?

Answer 6

repeated themes and repeated exposure strengthen beliefs
-use surveys and content analysis to investigate

Question 7

What is the Aggressor Effect?

Answer 7

exposure to violent media increase aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors(demonstrated accessibility and activation)

Question 8

What is Priming?

Answer 8

Activation of a concept makes them more accessible and more likely to be used in the short-term

Question 9

What is Cognitive Disinhibition?

Answer 9

lack of consequences or positive rewards lower inhibitions toward aggression

Question 10

What is Excitation Transfer?

Answer 10

Physiological arousal transferred to next stimulus often in same affective valence direction

Question 11

What is the mean world syndrome? Where did it emerge from?

Answer 11

repeated exposure to violent media leads to an overestimation of real world violence and victimhood
-emerged from cultivation

Question 12

What is the Conscious Numbing Effect and its outcomes?

Answer 12

exposure to violent media:
-reduces empathy, reduces sensitivity, reinforces rape myth acceptance

Question 13

What is the “Box of Masculinity”?

Answer 13

The “box” that men/boys are put into where they aren’t supposed to show emotion, and are told don’t think too much, never back down, be sexually aggressive with women

Question 13

What is the problem with relying on the argument that men are predisposed to be violent? Why is this a damaging argument to focus on?

Answer 13

-it makes it seem like its inevitable for men to be violent
-damaging because it causes us to overlook the fundamental role that cultural systems play

Question 14

What are the three facets of desensitization?

Answer 14

1. more calloused(insensitive/emotionally hardened) attitudes toward violence directed toward others
2. Lower physiological and emotional response to violence
3. Lower Likelihood to intervene

Question 15

How are masculinity, mental illness, and media violence tied together?

Answer 15

mental illness is seen as non-masculine, and media violence allowed the portrayal of “strong” men, pushing for less focus on men’s mental health issues

Question 15

What is the “tough guise”?

Answer 15

the front young men put up to shield their vulnerabilities to avoid being seen as “soft” or “weak”

Question 16

What is the “cool pose” and how does it relate to race and socio-economic status?

Answer 16

The “cool pose” is a hypermasculine menacing persona that is often adopted by men that come from a non-white race or a lower socio-economic status in order to prove that they are “worthy men”

Question 17

How does the Bushmaster ad reflect the cultural belief system about manhood and violence?

Answer 17

it connected manhood to guns, and that violence should be the first method to prove a man’s masculinity

Question 18

What is “covert depression” and what effects does it have?

Answer 18

it’s less noticeable depression that men face that causes them to have violent outbursts/anger, and overlooks the depression with masculine fear