Sociologists Studying the Effects of Media Violence Would Be More

question 88

Multiple Choice

Sociologists studying the effects of media violence would be more likely than social psychologists to do which of the following?

• A) conduct experiments manipulating the amount of media violence viewed by participants
• B) assess changes in television availability and in murder rates over the last 30 years
• 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

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