Researchers studying the effects of television violence on aggression have found that

A) media violence may cause aggression in children, but this is difficult to substantiate because correlational studies used to investigate this link are low in internal validity.
B) media violence may cause aggression in children because most children who watch violent television programs display aggressive personality types.
C) media violence causes aggression in children because high correlations exist between media viewing and amounts of violence viewed and aggressive behaviors.
D) media violence causes aggression in children because most correlational studies used to investigate this link have been high in internal validity.


Answer: A

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