Social Science - TV Violence

General Education Capstone Course

Event/Experience Details and Guideline Form

Gen. Ed. Category Event should be listed under: Social Science

SCC Competency addressed by event: Develop and communicate hypothetical explanations, predictions, and descriptions of human behavior within an historical, spatial, and/or social context.

Event experience Title: TV and media violence and effects on children

Anticipated Learning Outcome. 

The student will become familiar with one of the classic studies in Psychology

The student will learn how to generalize from a theoretical study to a practical implication of the theory.

The student will have an increased understanding of the concerns of society over issues of violence in the media and the impact on children.

Guidelines for accomplishment of event :

1. The student will find information on the classic study by Bandura , The Bobo Doll Study
   
   
2. The student will select and view any TV program or movie that a child would have easy access to and describe in the journal entry for this event, a negative lesson or inappropriate behavior that the child could learn from watching the program. If there is a rating for the movie or TV show (PG13 etc please include that information in your journal.
   
   
3. The student will then address the likelihood that the child would in fact “model” the behavior by drawing from the Bobo Doll research.
   
   
4. The student will then select a video game, movie or TV program accessible to a preteen to young adolescent and then in the journal entry for this event describe the negative lesson or inappropriate behavior that the preteen or young adolescent might learn from the game, movie or program. If the game, program or movie has a rating (PG, R etc) please include this in your journal.
   
5. The student will then address in the journal, the likelihood that the preteen or adolescent would in fact “model” the behavior by drawing from the Bobo Doll research.  DO NOT JUST GIVE YOUR OPINION AS TO WHETHER YOU WOULD MODEL THE BEHAVIOR

Event contact name: Any video store, movie channel or tv program guide.

Event contact Web site URL: google “bandura+Bobo Doll or psychclassics.yorku.ca/author.htm

SCC event creator: Barbara Sullivan and Beth Finders

Estimated Time for full completion (include: making contact/appointment; attending activity; travel; and journal consideration and entry) 1-2 hours + time of TV program or movie (3-5 total hours)