Author Question: Given the research on violence in the mass media and viewer aggression, which conclusion is MOST ... (Read 73 times)

bcretired · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

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.

Question 2

A research study on the effects of power found that powerful bosses ____.

a. gave workers little credit for the work they did
b. attributed accomplishments to the workers' motivation and efforts
c. rated their workers more favorably overall
d. overestimated their employees' worth