After reading Harris Chapters 9&10 you should be familiar with the following vocabulary as it applies to the topic at hand:

Modeling
Disinhibition
Sensitization
Desensitization
Cultivation
Catharsis

And you should be able to answer these questions after reading Harris chapter 9 & 10:

1. How is aggression different from violence?

2. Why are depictions of potential dangers and injuries more frightening to upper elementary children but not to pre-schoolers?

3. What are some movies YOU remember as being particularly frightening from your childhood?

4. What were the "Bobo doll experiments"? How were they related to media?

5. Which theory of mediated violence tends to be supported by experimental research, modeling or catharsis?

6. What are some individual-difference variables that impact the extent to which violent media programming is appealing?

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7. What is the "cognitive heuristic of availability"? What does it have to do with the impact of pornography on audiences?

8. Describe the experiments conducted by Linz, Donnerstein and their colleagues exploring the impact of slasher-films. What conclusions did they draw?