...Video Games and Aggression in Children Video Games and Aggression in Children Video games cause violence and aggression in children. This is a popular misconception that many people share. The fact is, according to federal crime statistics, the rate of juvenile violent crime in the United States is at a thirty year low (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2010). This comes at a time when video games are more popular, more violent and more realistic than ever before. The idea that video games expose our youth to a level of violence that will in turn lead to aggression and violence is simply false. Many people believe there are more likely causes of aggression and that video games are merely a scapegoat. I will argue that playing video games can actually have a positive effect on children, and that environment, personality, and lack of parental involvement are responsible for violence and aggression in our nation’s youth. In today’s world there are numerous reports on television and in newspapers and magazines about video games causing aggression and violence in children. Numerous politicians and watchdog groups claim that video games are leading our children down a dangerous path. This is entirely untrue. Since the early 1990s, video games have exploded in popularity. Conversely, in that same time period, violent crime rates in the United States and Canada have plummeted (Ferguson, 2008). Christopher Ferguson, a licensed psychologist and professor who researches...
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...physically aggressive competitors it was time to get their plan of mentally winning each time in motion. The Detroit Piston’s began to analyze each team, find their strong man, and bring him down. The Piston’s theory stated that once the top leading man of the team was mentally or physically out of the game the rest of the team would crumble after him. This theory proved true and with aggression from the defensive block specifically Bill Lambier, the Piston’s started making their journey to the top. With their new tactic on hand the Piston’s beat the Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and won two back-to-back national titles. Bill Lambier specifically thrived on this new aggression tactic and the feedback from the spectator aggresion. He took whatever actions necessary (punch, kick, slam) such that his athletic performance increased and the top man of the opposing team went down. This is an example of aggression that someone felt as if this was his or her role to contribute to his or her team. Bill and the rest of the Piston’s had created this name of the “Bad Boys” and they had to live up to it. What are the Bad Boys without Bad Boys? In closing the desire to win created an atmosphere of aggression. Everyone that was recruited into the Detroit Pistons seemingly became aggressive as well. The team used reactive aggression to throw elbows, or push people to the ground to decrease the athletic performance of the top man and increase their athletic performance. Without...
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...Deindividuation refers to when people when part of a relatively anonymous group lose their personal identity and henc their inhibitions about violence. Deindividuation has been used to explain of the collective behavior of violent crowds, social atrocities such as genocide. Deindividuation is a state that is categorized by the loss of a sense of individual identity. It involves a loss of public self-awareness and private self- awareness. This loss os self-awarness can lead to increased aggression as it minimizes concerns about evaluation by others and about your own moral standards thus weakening the normal barriers to aggression to antisocial behavior based on guilt and shame . Deindividuation can be caused by being anonymous (therefore unaccountable), for example in a crowd or when wearing a mark. Anonymity can dimish awareness of your own individuality, instead being merely part of a large group. Deindividuation can also be caused by an altered consciousness due to drugs or alcholol . Zimbardo conveys same conditions may lead to an increase in prosocial behavior such as in religious gatherings. Research by Mullen shows the effects of faceless crowds leading to individuation. whereby the anaylisis of newspaper cutting, lynchings in the US between 1988-1949 showed that the more people in a mob, the greater the savaergy with which they killed their victims. Whereas Zimbardos research carried out series of experiements that lead to the development of individuation theory...
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...and even intimate acts between human beings, but it can also be cultural and societal in its implications." I see this as saying even though a killing may just seem like a simple killing, it can mean so much more in literature. I beleive that symbolization in this story is, what people will do to survive, including putting all morals behind. Foster also describes how violence is not only a physical act but how it can be a "narrative violence". He describes how narrative violence is the violence an author uses to help him further the plot. He says it is the violence of the author and not the characters. For example when Rue dies, this is used to further show not only the emotion and love Katnis shows, but to also show the violence and aggresion that the other chracters show. But when the boy from district ten dies, no one knows how. All this does is move the story along. No matter the type of violence, it is all not just a killing or a beating, it meens something. When a chracter is killed in this movie it doesnt feel like a huge deal emotionally. As a viewer you know that this will include violence and you expect to see people dying. So when a chracter dies, I personally beleive the plot change isnt momentous. But do some deaths meen...
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...Psy 1012 9/19/12 Chapter 16 discusses social thinking and social influence. A summary of the main points in the chapter how group membership affects an individual, how being social influences how we think about ourselves and others, what attitudes are and how they are acquired, persuasion and cognitive dissonance, social influence and power, mere presence, conformity, compliance, obedience, brainwashing and self assertion. Social thinking and social influence is something that we are all affected by whether we realize it or not and many of the concepts that shed light on this subject are quite interesting. We are all born into an organized society and thus we all belong to some sort of social group. Within that group we all have certain social roles we play. Some of these roles we take on voluntarily and some involuntarily. Role conflicts sometimes take place when our roles conflict with one another, such as a police officer having to arrest an acquaintance. Structure and cohesion are two important dimensions to any group. Every group whether formal or informal has a sort of structure, the group cohesiveness determines the attraction to stay in the group. People mainly identify with their in groups, and cohesiveness is especially strong in these in groups. There are many factors that determine our in groups, such as age, race, religion, income etc… Then there are our out groups, which are groups we do not identify with. The position a person...
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...To what extent was the fall of the Berlin Wall a result rather than a cause of the end of the Cold war? The dismantling of the Berlin Wall in Nov 1989 was one of the most symbolic acts of the Cold War. It was a symbol of the changes that had swept through Europe in 1989 and of the end of the divisions that had marked the essential character of the CW: the ideological split between capitalism and communism. In 1989, the DDR was 4o years old and the East German leadership was prepared to celerbraite its anniversary. At what should have been an event to consolidate the country, the tide was turning against the regime. Gorbachevs reforms had important consequences for the existence of E germany as a separate country. The DDR was a product of Cold War tensions, which had prevented the unification of Germany after WW2. Without these tensions there seemed little reason for Germany to remain divided. Honecker recognized that the DDR could still have a reason to exist if it remained socialist and therefore different from W Germany. Honecker was not in favour of any reform, but the E german population could not be isolated from events in the rest of euope. Large numbers of East Germans had fled from the counrty via Hungary during the summer of 1989, but even more serious for the government were those who were staying put. Gorbys reforms of communism in the Usr had encouraged many E Germanys to push for change. Political groups were formed with huge crowds of demonstrators shouting...
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...[pic] |Edexcel BTEC Level 4 and 5 Higher Nationals in Health |Unit Code |Date Issued: | |and Social Care (QCF) |12 |5 May 2014 | |Unit Title: Physiological Principles of Health and |Student ID No.: |Date of final Submission: | |Social Care Organisation |P1013160 |02 August 2014 | |Assessors: Physiology teaching team. |Internal Verifier Name: Mr Hasa Ram | Human body contains 10 major systems which are responsible of correct function of the body where, the systems are supported by organs which help them to work in perfect harmony. LO1 1.1 Circulatory system: This system is supported by a system of tubes in major organs like heart, lymphatic, blood and blood vessels, by them the body receives all-important ingredients throughout the body and back again. Respiratory system: Is a breathing system where the lungs, diaphragm and airways play the main role in body. The supply of oxygen is transported to the body by breathing in and out and facilitating gas exchange. Digestive system: In this system body stimulate reaction in physical...
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...MGT 300 Midterm Review Questions Chapter 1 1. What is organizational performance and what is its relationship with efficiency and effectiveness? Organizational performance: a measure of how efficiently and effectively managers use organizational resources to satisfy customers and achiever organizational goals. Efficiency: A measure of how well or productively resources are used to achieve a goal Effectiveness: A measure of the appropriateness of the goals an organization is pursuing and the degree to which the organization achieves those goals. 2. Explain the following terms: strategy, low-cost strategy, and differentiation strategy Strategy: A cluster of decisions about what goals to pursue, what actions to take, and how to use resources to achieve goals. Low cost strategy: a way of obtaining customers by making decision that allow an organization to produce goods or services more cheaply than its competitors so it can charge lower prices than they do Differentiation strategy: To deliver to customers new, exciting, and unique products 3. What does the managerial function of organizing involve? What is its outcome? Organizing: structuring working relationships so organization members interact and cooperate to achieve organization goals. Outcome: The outcome of organizing is the creation of organization structure Organization structure: a formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates organizational members so they...
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...Functionalism, strain and Subcultural theories Durkheim’s functionalist theory Functionalism – society based on value consensus. Members of society sharing common culture. In order to achieve this, two things needed: - Socialisation – helps ensure individuals share the same norms and values. Shows the way to act. - Social control – rewards for conformity and punishment for deviance. Controls behaviour. Inevitability of crime – functionalists see crime as inevitable and universal. Every society has crime. Two reasons why crime and deviance are in all societies: - No everyone is equally socialized into norms and values. Some are likely to be deviant. - Diversity of lifestyle and values. Different groups have their own subcultures with distinctive norms and values. Some may see deviant acts as normal. > Durkheim says in modern societies there is tendency towards anomie. The rules for behaviour become weaker and less clear-cut. This is because modern societies have a complex division of labour meaning individuals become more different from each other. Crime is more likely. Positive functions of crime – it also performs two positive functions Boundary maintenance - produces a reaction from society, uniting members in disapproval of criminals and reinforcing their commitment to shared norms and values. Adaptation and change – all change starts with an act of deviance. There must be scope to challenge existing norms and values and this will seem deviant in the...
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...Hand Test Professor Edwin E. Wagner, Ph. D. Dr. Wagner was born in 1930 in Philadelphia, PA and is a widower and has two sons. He has authored over 200 publications in Psychology including manuals, reviews, monographs, books and journal articles. He received his B.A. Psychology, summa cum laude in 1956 and his Masters in Psychology in the year 1957. He had his Ph. D in Psychology in 1959. Dr. Wagner’s academic appointments include Instructor at Pennsylvania State University and Temple University. He was also a Professor Emeritus at University of Akron and Dean at Forest Institute of Professional Psychology. He received professional honors from: ABPP (Clinical and Counseling), ABAP (American Board Assessment Psychology) Fellow, and Society for Personality Assessment Fellow, APA Division 12. Not only that he has academic appointments but he also practiced privately in Akron, Ohio and in Huntsville, Alabama (assessment of pain patients for Alabama Pain Center and Counseling). He has a license in Counseling Psychology in the State of South Carolina. PURPOSE OF THE TEST The purpose of Hand Test is to elicit life-role responses which are common. This operational definition is a circumcised view of personality; it should also be considered exhaustive in regard to the multidimensional possibilities of personality assessment. The test usually uncovers the action tendencies that are near to the motor system and thus readily expressed in behavior. Therefore, fantasy life...
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