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Behavioral psychology is a concept that is pegged on the idea that people behaviors through conditioning. Behaviorists believe that people learn through observing and imitating their environment. A child is more predisposed to violence if they were brought up in a war-torn country than if they were brought up a peaceful country.
Behaviorists didn’t always believe in this idea. In fact, before 1961 scientific behavioral studies only revolved around the ideas of conditioning and association and reward and punishment. Albert Bandura pioneered the study of social learning when he observed that people also acquired behaviors through observation and imitation. …show more content…

It is unfortunate however that majority of the programming choices available today are violent. Protecting our children today is therefore much more challenging than it was in the 20th century. Also, the digital age has revolutionized entertainment in the 21st century. There hundreds or even thousands of streaming services online today. This makes monitoring much more challenging (Anderson, & Bushman, 2001).
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Anderson, C. A., & Bushman, B. J. (2001). Effects of violent video games on aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, aggressive affect, physiological arousal, and prosocial behavior: A meta-analytic review of the scientific literature. Psychological science, 12(5), 353-359.
Bandura, A., Blanchard, E. B., & Ritter, B. (1999). Relative efficacy of desensitization and modeling approaches for inducing behavioral, affective, and attitudinal changes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 13(3), 173.
Skalski, P. D., Denny, J., & Shelton, A. K. (2010). Telepresence and media effects research. Immersed in media: Telepresence in everyday life, 158-180.
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