What is meta-analysis? What were the findings of a meta-analysis ...

[dmcintosh]

What is meta-analysis? What were the findings of a meta-analysis that examined the effects of watching violent media on aggressive behavior in children and adolescents?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the social learning theory of aggression? How did Bandura's Bobo Doll experiments demonstrate that aggressive behavior could be learned?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[cclemon1]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: It is a statistical technique for combining the results of a number of studies in order to discover their commonalities. The meta-analysis showed that there is a correlation of approximately .30 between exposure to violent media and violent behavior.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: The theory states that aggressive behavior is caused by rewards for punishments, which may be either direct or indirect. The Bobo Doll experiments demonstrated that children were more likely to imitate an aggressive person's violent behavior toward an inflatable doll if that person was rewarded for aggression, but not if punishment ensued instead.

[dmcintosh]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[gcook]

Gracias!