In One Study, Eron and Colleagues Helped 10-Year-Old Children to Understand

Multiple Choice

In one study, Eron and colleagues helped 10-year-old children to understand how TV programs create an illusion of violence when in fact nobody gets hurt. What effect did this have?

A) It desensitized the children
B) It seemed to help the children to become less violent
C) The children became more violent on the belief that violence doesn't really hurt anybody
D) The children developed a special interest in the techniques of making TV programs
E) There was no measurable effect; the children's violent tendencies were so deep-seated that they could not be curbed by rather brief interventions such as this