Which of the following statements regarding television viewing is NOT true?
A. Experimental research provides evidence that viewing TV violence can increase aggression.
B. Adolescent girls who were more frequent preschool viewers of violent TV programs had lower grades than infrequent viewers.
C. Viewing educational television as preschoolers is linked to less aggression in boys at adolescence.
D. Research with adolescents supports the discontinuity view of television viewing.
Answer: D
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a. Sperling and Hancock b. Baddeley and Sanders c. Atkinson and Shiffrin d. Ebbinghaus and Ebbinghaus
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a. cognitive view b. humanistic view c. sociocultural view d. behaviorist view