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Research on violent video games shows that playing them |
| | A) | increases players' aggressive thinking. |
| | B) | increases players' prosocial behaviors. |
| | C) | reduces the heart rates and blood pressure of players. |
| | D) | improves player's grades. |
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Correlational research indicates that as pornography has become more widely available, the rate of reported rape has |
| | A) | increased. |
| | B) | decreased. |
| | C) | remained unchanged. |
| | D) | increased in the short run but decreased in the long run. |
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State sales rates of sexually explicit magazines such as Hustler and Playboy were positively correlated rates of _____ in the same state. |
| | A) | divorce |
| | B) | unemployment |
| | C) | rape |
| | D) | littering |
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Which of the following adolescents is most likely to be involved in negative acts as an adult? |
| | A) | Laura, who is too busy with dance team, friends, and homework to watch TV or play video games |
| | B) | Lou, who spends about three hours a night "gaming," and particularly enjoys "murder-and-mayhem" type games |
| | C) | Liu, who only watches the Food Network on TV. |
| | D) | Lakeisha, who spends about an hours a day playing a cooperative role-playing video game that simulates the operation of a small farm. |
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Viewing violence may increase aggression by |
| | A) | producing arousal. |
| | B) | producing disinhibition. |
| | C) | evoking imitation. |
| | D) | all of these. |
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Social psychologists Gentile and Anderson suggest that violent video games might encourage aggression more than violent television programming because. |
| | A) | players have a hard time identifying with any of the characters. |
| | B) | game players are more passive than television viewers. |
| | C) | players repeat violent behaviors over and over. |
| | D) | most games cause players to lose points for aggression. |
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Violent pornographic films often convey a false impression that |
| | A) | women enjoy aggressive sexual encounters. |
| | B) | women are more likely to be rape victims than are men. |
| | C) | most rapes are never reported to the police, |
| | D) | most rapes are committed by victims' dates or acquaintances. |
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The idea that watching violent drama enables people to release their pent-up hostilities is suggested by |
| | A) | social learning theory. |
| | B) | the disinhibition hypothesis. |
| | C) | catharsis theory. |
| | D) | the complementarity hypothesis/ |
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The results of Bandura's Bobo doll experiment indicated that observing aggressive behavior |
| | A) | lowers children's inhibitions and teaches them ways to aggress. |
| | B) | serves to release children's pent-up hostilities and in the long run makes them less aggressive. |
| | C) | increases aggression in males and decreases aggression in females. |
| | D) | has little effect on children's aggressive behavior. |
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Researchers looking for a "hidden third variable" that might explain the difference in aggression between heavy and light TV viewers have been able to explain the difference by statistically controlling for |
| | A) | income. |
| | B) | family size. |
| | C) | intelligence. |
| | D) | No third variables tested yet have been able to explain the difference. |
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Research indicates that when and where television is introduced, there are subsequent increases in |
| | A) | heart attacks. |
| | B) | alcohol use. |
| | C) | unemployment. |
| | D) | murder rates. |
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Children who regularly viewed Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were subsequently more |
| | A) | aggressive. |
| | B) | helpful and cooperative. |
| | C) | confused about the difference between reality and make-believe. |
| | D) | sarcastic. |
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Research on television viewing indicates that |
| | A) | 98 percent of American households have a TV set. |
| | B) | the TV is on seven hours a day in the average American home. |
| | C) | two of three programs contain violence. |
| | D) | all of these are true. |
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Controlled experiments on the effects of exposure to violent pornography indicate that it |
| | A) | has little effect on the viewer. |
| | B) | increases punitive behavior toward women. |
| | C) | results in catharsis and thus, in the long run, a lower rate of violent rape. |
| | D) | increases the rate of non-violent, but not violent, crime. |
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The violence viewing effect is strongest when an __________ person commits ____________ violence. |
| | A) | unattractive; unjustified |
| | B) | unattractive; justified |
| | C) | attractive; unjustified |
| | D) | attractive; justified |
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