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| Exposure to violent media purges or rids people of their own violent tendencies or inclinations (disproved) |
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Subjects are shown frightening content, then are asked to describe their reactions to the content
Subjects recall frightening shows |
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Heart rate
Blood pressure
Skin conductance |
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| Self-reported measures, Physiological Responses |
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| short-term effects of frightening media |
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| Shaking, Stomach pains, Crying, Clinging |
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| hard time sleeping, nightmares, sleeping with parents, scared of certain places in the house, bedtime rituals (checking under bed), refusing to engage in normal activities, concern about being hurt, unnecessary/unreasonably intense fears, aversion to certain things (spiders), anxiety in certain situations (swimming) |
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| images (real/fantasy) that are naturally scary (vicious animals, monsters, deformed characters)l physical transformations (hulk); death of a parent; vivid natural disasters |
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| More realistic threats (especially those that can happen to a child); Violence or the threat of violence; Child victims |
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| Realistic physical harm/threat; molestation/rape; threats from aliens/supernatural |
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| helping a frightened child cope |
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| remove from scary situation; don't belittle or ignore the fear; provide physical presence, attention and warmth; try a new activity (snack/drink); lower dosages of the scary thing to help them conquer fear;go along to bedtime ritals |
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| Helping a frightened childed |
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| under 8, show the impossibilty of the fantasy event (ex showing the use of makeup); visually demonstrate how it is unreal (apply makeup); avoid saying the scary thing is possible but not likely, instead say "It's never happened here" (calming limited truth); Use fears as a teaching guideline-teach how to protect themselves from threat; talk sympathetically about fears; seek professional help; seek child's corporation in avoiding future exposure to similar content |
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