Research suggests that violence on TV or in other media can directly increase aggression through five processes.Name and briefly define three of these processes.In comparison, the relationship between violent videogames and aggression is indirect.Describe one of the indirect ways in which violent video games may lead to aggression.

Violence on TV or in the media can directly increase aggression through at least three processes.The first process is imitation because people imitate aggressive models on TV.The second process is legitimization in which viewers association positive outcomes with aggression based on the outcomes they see on TV.Finally, desensitization is the process in which people are less upset by the suffering of victims after watching violence on TV.In contrast to these direct processes, the relationships between exposure to violent video games and aggression is indirect.For example, sexualized women characters in video games increase men's acceptance of rape, which could then increase the chances of a man committing sexual assault.