A Significant Danger of Media Violence Is That Impressionable Viewers

question 84

Multiple Choice

A significant danger of media violence is that impressionable viewers are subsequently more likely to enact the ________ provided by the media.

• A) ingroup bias
• B) implicit associations
• C) outgroup biases
• D) social scripts

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Definitions:

Curvilinear Relationships

Relationships between two variables where the strength and/or direction of the association changes over the range of the variable's value, forming a curve rather than a straight line.

Confounds

Variables that could potentially contaminate or influence the outcome of an experiment, making it hard to interpret the effects of the primary variables of interest.

Factorial Design

An experimental strategy in which factors are varied together to examine their interaction effects on a response variable.

Independent Variables

Variables that are manipulated or changed in an experiment to test their effects on dependent variables.