Sociologists studying the effects of media violence would be more likely than social psychologists to
a. conduct experiments manipulating the amount of media violence viewed by participants.
b. assess changes in television availability and in murder rates in populations of entire cities over the last 30years
c. concern themselves with situational variables that moderate the effects of media violence on its viewers.
d. focus on the types of individuals who choose to view media violence.
b
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A. grouping principles. B. the simplicity principle. C. feature detection. D. schemas.
Cynthia, who lives in Seattle, thinks most Midwestern teens are
pretty much alike but sees many individual differences among those, like her, in the Pacific Northwest. This is best understood as an effect of A) geographicalism. B) ingroup bias. C) narrowmindedness. D) climate differences.
When comparing the effects of continuous reinforcement with intermittent reinforcement, ______
a. neither causes long-term behavior change b. continuous reinforcement causes longer-term changes in behavior than intermittent reinforcement c. intermittent reinforcement causes longer-term changes in behavior than continuous reinforcement d. both cause equally long-term changes in behavior