From His Own Research and from His Analysis of Related

question 2

Multiple Choice

From his own research and from his analysis of related work by others, Berkowitz maintains that the most important danger in viewing film violence is that:

• A) for a short period right after viewing violence, a person is predisposed to act violently.
• B) it has long-term effects on memory, which can lead the viewer to act aggressively for a long period after viewing the film.
• C) violent films are so impactful that the emotional trauma of viewing them is never eliminated.
• D) a "systematic desensitization" to violence occurs, such that the more viewers watch violent films, the more violence those films must contain in order to have the same arousing effects.

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