Dr Vance measured the physiological responses of two groups of adolescents while they watched a video of a real-life physical fight. Group A, who regularly played violent video games, showed significantly lower skin conductance responses (SCR) than Group B, who rarely played violent video games.
With reference to Dr Vance's study, explain how desensitisation accounts for the influence of media on aggression, and outline one limitation of desensitisation as an explanation.
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Aggression with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 71 questions covering Neural, hormonal and genetic factors in aggression, Ethological and evolutionary explanations of aggression, Social psychological explanations of aggression, Institutional aggression in prisons, and Media influences on aggression, matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.