In One Study, Eron and Colleagues Helped 10-Year-Old Children to Understand

question 14

Multiple Choice

In one study, Eron and colleagues helped 10-year-old children to understand how TV programs create an illusion of violence when in fact nobody gets hurt. What effect did this have?

• A)It desensitized the children
• B)It seemed to help the children to become less violent
• C)The children became more violent on the belief that violence doesn't really hurt anybody
• D)The children developed a special interest in the techniques of making TV programs
• E)There was no measurable effect; the children's violent tendencies were so deep-seated that they could not be curbed by rather brief interventions such as this

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