Question

Design a follow-up study to Aggression Priming. As you work on this discussion, try to think about what other variable might influence Aggression Priming. Give a hypothesis for what you expect to occur for your new independent variable.

Let me give you a few example, though try to get creative with your group. Look at prior research and see if you can use some of their work as a follow-up to your study. Have fun with it! Okay, consider some ideas I was thinking about for a follow-up study (Personally, I would recommend the second or third idea, as there is a lot of research you could draw on about these topics, which would make Paper III much easier to write).

First, you can alter the way that you manipulate aggression awareness. For example, some people can get the advertisements (aggression versus financial ads) while others get a game format (complete crossword puzzles / word searches that use either aggressive-related or finance-related words). Alternatively, you can give some participants aggression-related images (like guns and gore) while others get neutral images (like dollar signs or bills) while other participants get words (the actual words guns/gore for some versus words about money/dollars for others). Here, one IV would be type of topic (aggressive versus financial) while your other IV would be type of medium (images versus words).   

Second, source credibility is a good topic to explore. Have some participants read about Larry “the well-educated and respected doctor” while others read about Larry “the former prisoner who never graduated high school). Then, some participants get the financial ads while others get aggressive ads. Will the social status of Larry interact with the ads?.

A third idea might involve altering frustration. Give people a task and then tell some they did terrible and others they did wonderful. Does this feedback influence their assessments of Larry depending on whether they see aggressive versus financial ads?

Finally, you can look at some participant characteristics if you like. You can measure the participants’ likelihood to have a hostile attribution bias (the tendency to perceive others as acting aggressively, even when they aren’t). Or you can focus on whether or not the participant plays a lot of violent video games (versus few violent video games) to see if those who play such games are impacted more by the aggressive ads then those who do not play those games. You could see if participant gender interacts with the type of ad. Just remember that if you choose a participant characteristic, you cannot draw cause-effect conclusions (since you cannot randomly assign someone to be high versus low in hostile attribution bias or to be a man versus a woman). That is why I would prefer that you manipulate some feature of the study so you can randomly assign people to one of the four different conditions.

Answer 1

Priming is an implicit memory effect this technique is used in cognitive psychology, in which an exposure to a stimulus-response the specific stimulus in later stimulus, unconsciously, it is used to train a person's brain. It can be a positive priming or negative priming. In priming the subject is not supposed to memorize the words or certain sequences, it is the advantage taken by association like color blue is associated with the sky, or yellow color is associated with banana

Young children when they are exposed to video games or movies that show aggression like murder or other crimes. and the end result shows that the reward is given to the person or act that was very aggressive, it will create a stimulus in a child's brain and in later days he will show aggressiveness.

Therefore the violence in movies and computers have the effect of priming in an individual exposed to violence.

There are many types of priming and brain associates unconsciously one stimulus to another in an association by processing storing and recalling information. According to the researchers, it can be an adaptive identity that improves the ability of problem-solving and helps in controlling unwanted behavior.

Priming is useful in studying how the brain stores information and recall it later. It helps researchers to find out which part of the brain is affected by Alzheimer's disease. According to the theory of Berkowitz stimulating specific aggression constructs that are stored in the brain give rise same type of aggression stimulus and activation to associated constructs.

When the concept of killing or romance is activated the associated more similar concepts becomes accessible to the brain. Anderson et al show that if any weapon is used in priming the concept or recalling aggressive word it becomes much easier rather than using non-aggressive words.

Three experiments were conducted for finding out the effect of priming with regards to aggression on men .and women it was noticed that violence (a variable) or aggressive thoughts increase regardless of the sex the aggressive thoughts increases that were primed.