Professor Henry Is Interested in the Effect of Anti-Violence Videos

question 9

Essay

Professor Henry is interested in the effect of anti-violence videos on teenagers' involvement in interpersonal violence.Funding has been obtained to show these videos to 300 adolescents who attend a local school.Create a causal hypothesis and develop an experimental design to test it.Identify two advantages of applying this design and two disadvantages of the research approach.Use a classic experiment and a Solomon four group design.

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Definitions:

Mere Exposure Effect

The phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them.

Dissonance Theory

A psychological theory suggesting that inconsistency between a person's beliefs and behaviors causes discomfort, leading to efforts to reduce the inconsistency.

Unpleasant State

A condition or situation that causes discomfort or dissatisfaction.

Observational Learning

The process of learning behaviors by observing and imitating others, also known as modeling, without needing direct instruction or reinforcement.