A researcher studies how teenagers who regularly watch action movies featuring intense hand-to-hand combat react to interpersonal conflict.
Using your knowledge of cognitive priming, explain how this media exposure could lead to an aggressive response when these teenagers experience a minor confrontation at school.
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.