Observational Learning: A person's social behavior is controlled by the interaction between a situation and their emotional state, schemas of the world, beliefs on what is appropriate, and how to behave socially. Throughout childhood, children encrypt what behaviors to reenact into their memory based on observing others around them. They create individual beliefs as they engage in activities and view their world.

Desensitization: There is an increase in long-term effects based on mass media, video games, and emotions. Continuous exposure to specific media or video games leads to tolerance and a lack of natural reactions to the content. For a person to become desensitized to violent media or games, they consume enough for there to be a lack of negative responses.

Enactive Learning: Children learn how to act in specific ways by interacting with different media types. Engaging in violent behaviors through violent games can have long-term effects on arousal in comparison to other forms of media.