Tag: social learning theory

• The Golem’s Creator: How Communication Influences Life

  Back in 1997, so seemingly long ago, I took a class at UW-Madison that turned me from a pre-med student into a double major of communication arts and psychology that would eventually lead me to become the scholar I am today.  For this class, we had to write a paper about the communication theories we […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 12, 2013

  Communication Studies

  Agenda-Setting Theory, communication, cultivation theory, desensitization, excitation transfer theory, Expectancy Violations Theory, Feminism, gendered communication, group communication, groupthink, leadership, mass communication, mean world syndrome, Media, non-verbal, norm of reciprocity, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, self-disclosure, social learning theory, Symbolic Interactionism

• Cultivated Learning Theory: Graduate school, year one

  In the theory class of the first semester of my first year as a graduate student, I was in a group with two other MA hopefuls, and we wrote a paper on how we would study the topic of how the media influences adolescents’ and young adults’ sexual behaviors.  Always the clever one, I termed […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  April 16, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Research Method(ology)s

  cultivated learning theory, cultivation theory, excitation transfer theory, media and sex, media effects, priming theory, sex, social learning theory, the birds and the bees, Uses and Gratifications

• Playing Digital Games as Scaffolding

  [This is a research proposal from 2005 on how a child’s cognitive developmental level could interact with digital games’ formal features.  The entire proposal, with references, can be found here.] Introduction The history of the mass media has born witness to a chief concern: how will interacting with this or that medium and/or its content […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 18, 2012

  Audience/Reception Studies, Digital Games

  attention, Children, cognitive skills, computer games, digital games, learning, scaffolding, social learning theory, Video games