Formal Experiments by Jean-Pierre Leyens and Wendy Josephson on the Effects

question 46

Multiple Choice

Formal experiments by Jean-Pierre Leyens and Wendy Josephson on the effects of watching media violence on aggressive behavior in boys

• A) had problems with placebo effects.
• B) suggested that watching violence causes real-life violence.
• C) proved that the two variables are not correlated.
• D) are now believed to be uninterpretable because of experimenter bias.

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Definitions:

Explicit Collusion

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Tit-For-Tat

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Strategy

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Dominant Strategy

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