Liberty University Psych 210 Case Study : What is the Age of Accountability? Tracey M. Harrell Liberty University Online Liberty University Psych 210 Case Study: What is the Age of Accountability? When a young child commits a crime, especially a violent crime, against another person, The tragedy is twofold. The devastation of the crime committed is only superseded by the incomprehensible truth that the crime has been committed by a child, 7 years old or under. Typically, there is a search for the answers to “why” when crime of any nature has been committed, but when the perpetrator is a young child; the world is drawn to, another, most disturbing, question.
So what does exposure to young children do? In this study taken by Lovaas, 1961, Four- to six-year-old children were exposed for five minutes to an aggressive or non-aggressive film. After watching the film, the children were invited to play with a ball or a mechanical doll apparatus, in which pressing a bar caused one doll to hit the other on the head. Children exposed to the aggressive film pressed the bar to activate the hitting dolls more often than children who had been exposed to a non-aggressive film.
In this study, young children saw a film of an adult widely hitting a five-foot-tall inflatable punching toy called a Bobo doll (Bandura, Ross, 1963a, 1963b).later the children were given the opportunity to play with the Bobo doll themselves, and sure, most displayed the same kind of behavior, in some cases mimicking the aggressive behavior almost identically. Therefore, I stand for the fact that media violence does relate to aggressive and violent behavior. First claim related to your main thesis. To further expound on the research claim by Albert Bandura he believed that television was a source of behavior
For example, “The emotional responses of children who witness domestic violence may include fear, guilt, shame, sleep disturbances, sadness, depression, and anger (Domestic Violence Round Table, 2015).” It is evidently clear that children who come from abusive families may incur problems later in life as they establish and build personal and private relationships. For example, children that are exposed to their mother who is verbally, physically, or sexually abused may develop problematic relationships because of experienced aggression. This aggression may be taken out on peers, or even their own mother. When a child continuously is a witness in seeing their mother abused in any way, chances are they may display or express
The experiments Bandura, Ross and Ross created four separate experiments to see if the children would imitate the acts of aggression shown to them, using what they called a “bobo doll” as the trigger object, a large blow up doll, something like a Kelly toy. Heavy at the bottom, so it rocked on its base. The children were placed into four separate groups and observations took place. The groups were split into the following ways; * Group 1 -An adult model, both male and female, would physically hit the bobo doll and make suggestive remarks towards it, such as “kick him” and “throw him in the air” * Group 2 - The children were shown a film with the same acts of violence towards the doll from people * Group 3 - Another group of children were shown a film whereby a person was dressed as a cat, showing acts of aggression towards the doll * Group 4 – The children
The report aims to: • Summarise the findings of Bandura et al (1963) on how children imitate aggressive behaviour that they have observed by another person in real life or in the media. • Give advice to parents of children on how violence observed by children in real-life or in the media can affect how children imitate this aggressive behaviour and how they should protect their children from such behaviour. Background Bandura et al (1963) carried out a research study with the aim of exploring the extent to which children imitate aggressive behaviour that they have observed carried out by another person (a model) in real life or in a film. Ninety-six children (equal number of boys and girls) aged between 3 and 6 years old were divided into four equal groups: Group 1 Each child was individually exposed to a real life person behaving aggressively towards a Bobo doll. Half of group one saw a male model and the other half a female model.
This study will also try to offer suggestions as to how further studies can be improved and how to solve the problem of juvenile delinquency. It will also present some of the limitations that can be faced when conducting studies on this topic of juvenile delinquency. Definition of terms Juvenile delinquency- this is the broad-based term given to juveniles who commit crimes. Juveniles are defined as individuals who haven’t reached adulthood or the age of majority. (http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-juvenile-delinquency.htm) Delinquency- this is defined as, failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.
Youth Violence in Schools American InterContinental University Abstract During this paper, I will discuss youth violence in schools, and how the media has portrayed it. I will focus on the urban schools since it has the bulk of stigmatism resulting from public opponents with who placed blame on the parents opposed to the type of community these children are forced to be a part of. In addition, there is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which is the cause of many of these youths acting out. lastly, acknowledging the social groups and parents who are trying to aid with being positive in fighting those stigmas and obstacles by educating them and giving them different types of avenues to spend their time. Violence in Schools I chose Youth Violence in Schools as the topic for my post.
Learning Gender from Toys and Clothes I visited Wal-Mart Thursday, 4/19/2012 and observed the toy aisle. The toys were segregated based on gender. You can’t really tell which items are intended for boys/girls. I want to touch on an episode of Wipe Swap that I watched on television. There was a 9 year old Caucasian boy whose favorite color was pink, and he enjoyed playing with Barbie dolls.
For this writing assignment I have visited a few toy stores (Toy House, Toys R Us) recently to do Observational and Descriptive research on gender role development in the boys and girls sections for ages 4-7 years of age. In the next few paragraphs I will be describing and sharing what I have observed on the differences between the boys and girls sections. Compared to what I remember and seen as a child myself. Some of the things that I noticed right away in the boys sections were that about 70% of the toys were louder and made many different sounds. Some of these sounds were that of fire truck sirens, play toy guns, and action figures that spoke words.