Outline and evaluate one psychological explanation of media influences on pro-social behaviour One psychological explanation of media influences on pro-social behaviour is parental mediation. Singer suggested that parents can enhance children’s understanding by watching pro-social programmes with their children and discussing the moral content and reinforcing the pro-social message. By adults explaining the message to their children it enables them to understand much easier and they can take it on board. Morals in pro-social programmes tend to be harder to understand than anti-social behaviour. Age is an important factor for understanding pro-social behaviour.
According to Reiss reality TV educates viewers its shameless behaviors that are shown by the contestants. These shows teach the youth about life situations. Viewers are trying to be part of the “in crowd” without realizing life consequences. This is an effect on children’s everyday life while trying to be something they are not. People compete with each other trying to be the next superstar.
Many alcohol advertisements are placed in different types of media that are popular among adolescent.” They spend billions of dollars in developing an advertisement to capture the publics’ eye, especially the young adolescents. The alcohol industry target a specific group mainly teenagers, but they don’t realize is that all of the colorful effects, the music, and the atmosphere of fun and excitement makes the teenagers want to take a shot or two. At John Hopkins University made a estimate, “the likely effects of several alcohol policies on youth drinking behavior in the U.S. population concluded that a complete ban on alcohol advertising would be the most effective, resulting in 7,609 fewer deaths from harmful drinking and a 16.4% drop in alcohol-related life-years lost.” Banning alcohol commercials can affect the life of young adolescents and adults by not having the influence or the temptation in front of you will decrease the amount of drinking in teens. Commercials have a lot of power over a person’s judgment persuading them to act like different
Especially in our behaviors and what we deem as acceptable or for that matter the converse and unacceptable. In American society the media hugely dictates our knowledge and behaviors. For regularly
Reality TV has had high rating since the beginning because of the entertainment it provides for all viewers. Numerous people compare their lives to the ones on reality TV, because many wish to be them or many just choose to judge their way of living since it is on aired nationwide. In “The ‘normal’ Narcissism of Reality TV” by Jean M. Twenge she explain how narcissism shown in reality TV affects the younger generation’s view of the world, by making narcissism seem normal. Narcissistic people on reality TV have affected the younger generation and the obsession they have of themselves. Twenge states, “To many older people, it’s funny.
I think this all ties into the emotion of a teenager. The video stated that the Cerebellum coordinates us not only physically but mentally as well. As time went on, I learned to be much more comfortable in front of people, and learned to be successful anywhere, you must communicate. My point being as I got older, just like the video stated in my early 20’s I developed much better communication skills that allowed me to conquer the fear of public speaking. I feel like all the testing and studies are great and interesting.
At the early stages in their young lives where reading is not really their strong point, the visual stimulation of pretty colors, shapes, and exciting sounds of educational TV shines the brightest. Shows like Dora The Explorer, Word Girl, Reading Rainbow, and Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood are sometimes the strongest factors in developing their cognitive and language skills. Most of the kids watching these shows don’t even know that they are learning, and that’s the beauty of it all. Mr. Steven Johnson’s Theory of the Sleeper Curve is an arguable idea. Seeing how most of the television I watch is for entertainment purposes 80% of the time.
They spoke about how they had ‘Nickelodeon Day’ where they bought commercials just on nickelodeon. It attracted the children and made it a kids day, where children would want to attend and then they would bring their parents and siblings, families could make a day out of it. It’s a smart idea marketing to younger children because we know that children watch television and are more likely to pay attention to commercials, either they want the product or want to go to the commercials advertised. The commercials allows consumers to order tickets right online so it’s fast and
Media is the backbone of American society today. People thrive on the drama of knowing what celebrity did what with who, or what stocks crashed this week, or even what the next act of congress might be. Every individual will have their own opinion on how important all of these topics are, but the fact still remains that without media, the large majority of people in today’s American society would be lost. One of the most common forms of media that is accessible by every American today is television. Television allows people to know what’s going on in the world, it gives people endless hours of entertainment, and it even has a certain value in advancing people’s knowledge on certain topics.
Anissa Rago If you trace your thoughts back to a couple decades ago, and think about what children aspired to be “when they grew up”, you will most likely find your thoughts scrambling from doctors to lawyers to your rare occasion pop star. Now fast forward to today, the same question has been asked and the tables have most definitely turned. “Last year, a survey found that the top three career aspirations for five to 11 year olds in Britain were sports star, pop star, and actor compared with teacher, banker, and doctor 25 years ago. The number of child performance licenses, issued by councils to pupils who miss three or more days of school per half-year to perform, increased, in five years, by 80%. At Stagecoach, the performing arts school franchise, student numbers leapt from 12,000 in 1999 to 36,000 today” (Brockes).