Given the Research on Violence in the Mass Media and Viewer

question 40

Multiple Choice

Given the research on violence in the mass media and viewer aggression, which conclusion is MOST accurate?

• A)Violent media can have serious, long-term impacts in terms of increasing aggressiveness in viewers.
• B)Violent media can have mild, short-term impacts in terms of increasing aggressiveness in viewers, and may or may not have more serious or longer-term impacts.
• C)Exposure to violent media is one of the most difficult risk factors to alter in terms of preventing aggression.
• D)Violent media seem to increase some forms of aggression among people who are already prone to aggression, but to have little or no impact on people who are not already prone to aggression.

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Definitions:

Sampling Distribution

The design of probabilities for a chosen statistic, rooted in the examination of a random sample.

Non-normally Distributed

Refers to a distribution that does not follow a normal curve, with data points that might skew or exhibit kurtosis.

Random Samples

An element of a statistical population where each constituent part has the same chance of selection.

Standard Error

A measure of the precision of a sample's mean estimate of a population mean.