Psychology
Introduction
Violent scenes on the television screen, violent games or offensive lyrics, vulgar languages used in television shows or movies or even games. However, no evidence that violent media contributes to violent and aggressive behaviours. There are many experiments undergone to provide evidence that any media violence plays a factor in causing a person to behave violently.
Experiment 1
The reason for this experiment to be undergone is to find out the priming effects of violent media. The aim of this experiment is to find out the response of two different groups of participants, one group watching violent videotape and another watching a non-violent videotape. It is hypothesized that the participants who watched violent videotape would list down a higher number of aggressive associations to the homonyms in comparisons to those who watched a non-violent videotape (Bushman, 1998). The participants were 200 psychology undergraduate students who voluntarily participated, 100 of which are men and another 100 are women. One group of participants were tasked to watch violent videotape and another group of participants were tasked to watch a non-violent videotape, and afterwards they were asked to list down either non-aggressive words, homonyms or aggressive words. During the listing of the words, they were asked to immediately write down another word after the other. Participants recorded the time taken for them to complete the task. The person invigilating the experiment checked all calculations for accuracy.
According to Bushman (1998), it took an average of 155 seconds for the participants to complete the task of listing down the words. The results also showed that the participants who watched the violent videotape are more likely to have listed down aggressive words and homonyms, whereas the participants who watched the non-violent videotapes are less likely to list down aggressive words and homonyms. Lastly, the results proved that out of 100 men and 100
Violent scenes on the television screen, violent games or offensive lyrics, vulgar languages used in television shows or movies or even games. However, no evidence that violent media contributes to violent and aggressive behaviours. There are many experiments undergone to provide evidence that any media violence plays a factor in causing a person to behave violently.
Experiment 1
The reason for this experiment to be undergone is to find out the priming effects of violent media. The aim of this experiment is to find out the response of two different groups of participants, one group watching violent videotape and another watching a non-violent videotape. It is hypothesized that the participants who watched violent videotape would list down a higher number of aggressive associations to the homonyms in comparisons to those who watched a non-violent videotape (Bushman, 1998). The participants were 200 psychology undergraduate students who voluntarily participated, 100 of which are men and another 100 are women. One group of participants were tasked to watch violent videotape and another group of participants were tasked to watch a non-violent videotape, and afterwards they were asked to list down either non-aggressive words, homonyms or aggressive words. During the listing of the words, they were asked to immediately write down another word after the other. Participants recorded the time taken for them to complete the task. The person invigilating the experiment checked all calculations for accuracy.
According to Bushman (1998), it took an average of 155 seconds for the participants to complete the task of listing down the words. The results also showed that the participants who watched the violent videotape are more likely to have listed down aggressive words and homonyms, whereas the participants who watched the non-violent videotapes are less likely to list down aggressive words and homonyms. Lastly, the results proved that out of 100 men and 100