It can be stated that most children spend more time watching TV rather than with parents or in the classroom. Some of the findings Questions arise, why does watching TV violence cause aggression in children? Children learn so many things just by watching and observing even if they don’t understand the reason behind it. Even the famous Bandura‘s bobo doll (Social learning theory) experiment proves that children learn and imitate action just by watching. In this experiment, a group of young children were divided into Group A and Group B.
Unfortunately, many of today’s television programs are violent. So does TV influence kids that violence, drugs, alcohol and sex are ok? How much violence, drug references, alcohol usage, and sex references does the average American child come across? How much of this do they take in? Hundreds of studies have found that children and teenagers that watch television may: • Become “immune” or numb to the horror of violence • Gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems • Imitate the violence they observe on television; and • Identify with certain characters, victims and/or victimizers Also, Extensive viewing of television violence by children causes greater aggressiveness.
shows, vitiates the purity and innocence of young minds. On the internet, children under the age of 18 can enter adult websites; such as Xtube, Fakku, and Redtube. Sure they ask for the age when you first enter the site, but lying is always possible. Though many people argue that it’s up to the kids to decide what they want to watch the rated contents or not, but if there is no internet then the kids wouldn’t even be watching it in the first place. Maybe adult pornography sites don’t apply to every single kid, but how about the violent, gory, and explicit video games that elementary school children play?
I have noticed that in the U.S. there are a lot of overweight children for many reasons. Children should be encouraged to get up and be active versus sitting around watching so much television and eating. The results of a study on television viewing and body weight in children earlier in the year of 2007, concluded that kids who watched the most TV or ate the fewest meals with their families were at risk of being or becoming overweight (Gabel et al, 2007). The analysis addressed the eating and activity factors associated with the onset of becoming overweight and persistent overweight in 8,000 children from kindergarten to third grade. Researchers identified three groups of children: never overweight, overweight onset and persistent overweight.
In the United States, television is sometimes censored for offensive language and behavior. Many audiences that watch TV or films usually get bothered based on the offensive languages. What can be done by parents? How can it help with censored channels? Censorship in television really relies on the person whom is watching either TV or a movie.
We have all heard parents, politicians and other authorial figures saying that television teaches children anti-social behaviour. However other people, especially producers and managers of television programs, claim that the pro-social effects of television are more significant than the antisocial effects. Television can trigger both pro-social and anti-social behaviour. From my point of view pro-social aspects of television outweigh the anti-social aspects. Let’s take the kids program that can be seen between 6 and 9 o'clock in the morning.
La Sim June 5, 2012 Television viewing and violent behavior The influence of television viewing on the psychosocial development of children is profound. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), statistics show that the average child or adolescent spend about three to four hours of television viewing per day (Committee on Public Education. 2001). To put in perspective, by the time a person reaches the age of seventy the person would have watch about seven to ten years of television in their lives. Studies of cognitive development indicate that television provides a stimulus for learning and that children learn from television.
Recent research has shown that connections between children playing violent video games can cause later aggressive behavioral problems. In retrospect studies have also shown a twelve percent increase in aggressive behavior after watching violent television as well. Some parents and psychologists have said that there are children who benefit from the proficiency and coordination of playing video games while others disagree. Critics of video games claim that watching violent television is less detrimental due to the children not physically playing out the violence. Research has also shown heavy viewers, which is four or more hours a day, put in less effort at school, have poorer reading skills, play less friendly with friends, have fewer hobbies and activities, and are more likely to be overweight.
Gamer ages range from two all the way up to late adulthood. Two years old? A child this age should be outside exploring the world, fumbling around with his new ball, or learning to run. According to the website, The Lion & Lamb Project, an article titled Violence in Video Games: A Few Facts to Consider estimates that 70 percent of children ages 2 to 18 have access to video games at home. Of these children, a third of them have video consoles in their room, allowing unsupervised play.
Seventy-nine percent of children play video games, and at least sixty percent of middle school boys have played one or more mature rated game. Some psychologists suggest that video games are positive- they are creating an alternate reality for adolescents to release their anger. However, studies have consistently proven that violent video games cause more aggressive behavior and, overall, are negatively affecting America’s youth. The debate whether or not video games are positive or negative has been a major controversy in the U.S. ever since Columbine, a tragic school shooting in 1999. News spread that one of the gunmen, Dylan Klebold, spent much of his time playing violent video games.