Feshback and Singer's studies of the effects of television as well as Gerbner and Gross' Catharsis Effect both directly challenge its findings.
Feshback and Singer's studies of the effects of television as well as Gerbner and Gross' Catharsis Effect both directly challenge its findings. In particular it has been shown that seeing people on video instead of in person moderates the effect. The discussion criticized Miller and Dollard's work as mere discrimination learning, and not imitation. Used to support "Social Learning Theory", the experiment put children into the presence of an adult model, varying whether the kind of behavior the model exhibited was either aggressive or non-aggressive. The difference in the children's behavior in a certain subsequent generalization task was used as proof that children learn from imitating adult's behavior. FTP, identify this experiment conducted by Albert Bandura which takes its name from a kind of toy which bounces back when you hit it.
Feshback and Singer's studies of the effects of television as well as Gerbner and Gross' Catharsis Effect both directly challenge its findings.
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