Question

Which of the following mechanisms, in relation to copycat effects generated by the media, is characterized through the following description: the portrayals of certain behaviors by the media activate a cluster of associated ideas and concepts within the potential copycat offender that increase the likelihood that he or she will behave similarly?

Answer 1

-contagion

-imitation

-suggestion

-learning

-assortative relating

Step-by-step explanation:

Psychological Mechanisms are a set of behaviours tuned to respond at specific adaptive problems and typically operate in response to specific stimulus with an if/then decision process.

By protraying commonly violent or suicidal behaviours mass media technology stimulates the response of the following psychological

Mechanisms:

-contagion

-imitation

-suggestion

-learning

-assortative relating