(DL03) PSY 230 Research Paper: Current social issues in America Richard Recupero J Sargent Reynolds C.C. INTRODUCTION “ELECTRONIC BABYSITTERS” We are going to review the effects of a child’s cognitive, emotional, moral and physical development in today’s technological society. My research and thoughts include topics of excessive television viewing, texting, iPads, mobile televisions in cars and video games and how they are affecting our children. Included is some information about how violence in media also affects development. How do we aid in the development of children and are the roads we are traveling the wrong roads?
For example Farrington conducted an experiment into how disrupted families can affect how likely someone is to turn to crime, and they found that most participants defined as ‘chronic offenders’ shared the same or similar characteristics, for example convicted parents, delinquent siblings and young parents. Other studies include Wilkstrom and Tafel, who conducted a study into poverty and disadvantaged neighbourhoods and Sutherland’s theory into the 9 principles of criminology. People learning criminal behaviour from others can depend on the environment and people that are around them. If people see it every day then they will get used to this and they can sometimes, not know any better which implies not having a real sense of moral right and wrong. This is affect people in the future
These shows lead the children to believe in aggression, which is defined as the behavior intending to bring harm or negative consequences to others. The operational definition in this case is how much television teenagers watch. The selected participants would be teenagers, who are between the ages of 13 to 17 years old, and there would be a random sample in order to fairly represent a population so that each member has an equal chance of inclusion. Once all the participants write down what their favorite television shows are, they are told that this is a corellational study to make the connection between violent shows and teenagers getting arrested. Then the teens are now asked to write down whether they have been arrested in the last five years and that this would not be publicly shown, in case the teens are not comfortable with the other teens knowing.
The author uses some expert testimonies to help readers accept his opinion. For example, a Carnegie Mellon research, Professor Robert Kraut said that people who communicated with disembodied strangers online allowed low-quality relationships developed in virtual reality (para. 8). Another example, from the writer Michael Lewis, observes that adolescents are drawn to cyberspace for different reasons than adults, as the hero, a 15- year-old boy name Marcus Arnold, in his book Next: The Future Just Happen (para. 10).
Age is an important factor for understanding pro-social behaviour. McKenna et al conducted a study where children watched an episode of the Power Rangers. However, McKenna found that only children who were aged 8 to 10 could actually understand what the moral message behind the programme was. He found that the younger children focused a lot more on the fighting in the programme as it was easier for them to understand and take on board. Rice also conducted an experiment and found that parental mediation enhanced children’s learning from watching Sesame Street.
Supporting Young People Who Are Socially Excluded or Excluded from School CU1578 1.1: Explain the issues that may affect young people who are excluded, including access to services or amenities, crime or anti-social behaviour, isolation or stigmatisation. Research shows that young people who had disengaged from school by the age of 12 or 13 go on to participated in anti-social behaviour, crime, drinking and drug use. This particular group of young people are far more likely to later progress to more serious crime and drug use. Even though most of these young people have ambitions to work, only a minority have been able to secure long-term employment with a few keen to live a life on benefits. Young people’s area where they lived was a key influence on their experiences.
18 April 2012 Influences of Television on Family Life Warnings of drug and alcohol addiction are seen almost everywhere such as on newspapers, in schools, and in public places. Moreover, those issues were discussed frequently to find out many methods to prevent teenagers from drug and alcohol abuse. Nevertheless, many people ignore another addiction that has no less negative effects as drug or alcohol addiction do. Although negative effects of too much television watching are ambiguous to be paid attention, Marie Winn, the writer of “Television: The Plug-In Drug,” is one of a few people who discovers the addictive behavior that has many disadvantages. In the essay, while television used to be a mean to enhance quality of family life in the past, advent of television, nowadays, is considered an important reason dwindling family life.
Last, I will make recommendations about how those problems could be minimized. By understanding the new media technologies and the impact it has on sex and violence with children and adults we understand that as a society we need to become mindful of the harm that comes with using new technology. Compare and contrast media sex and violence today versus childhood Remembering media sex and violence from my childhood is hard to picture. As a child, I can remember having limited contact with adult activities or conversation when adults were present. When adults were over and parties were given the children had to be in a room.
Alana Mr. Biggs Exp. Read/Write 17 March 2013 Juvenile Justice In todays society the internet and television have a huge impact on childrens lives and the way they view certain situations. The media, such as movies, music and television, shows certain things that many children should not be exposed to. Children at the age of thirteen or younger have a difficult time knowing right from wrong to a certain degree. Many people would disagree with this argument.
The parents on the other hand, have to also adjust their lifestyle to make the children comfortable so that the children don’t see the difference. In today's society it is very common for a child to grow up in a home where one of the parents is absent. In most cases it is usually the father that is not present, particularly in African American homes. "In the United States today, 16,334,000 children under age 18 live in single mother homes. Single parent homes affect children psychology producing negative effects on the child's esteem, behavior, as well as education.