Television and Behavior: Ten Years of Scientific Progress and Implications for the Eighties, Volume 1U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1982 - Developmental psychology |
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Page 6 - After 10 more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.
Page 51 - In the study previously described in the discussion of altruism, in which a prosocial program, two aggresThe clear and simple message derived from the research on prosocial behavior is that children learn from watching television and what they learn depends on what they watch. The programs they see on television change their behavior. If they look at violent or aggressive programs, they tend to become more aggressive and disobedient. But if they look at prosocial programs, they will more likely become...
Page 36 - The other commission was the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior. In 1972, the committee issued a report stating that the convergence of evidence from both laboratory and field studies suggested that viewing violent television programs contributes to aggressive behavior.
Page 34 - Coates, B., Pusser, HE, & Goodman, I. The influence of "Sesame Street" and "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" on children's social behavior in the preschool.
Page 2 - there is a convergence of the fairly substantial experimental evidence for short-run causation of aggression among some children by viewing violence on the screen and the much less certain evidence from field studies that extensive violence viewing precedes some long-run manifestations of aggressive behavior.
Page 38 - But according to many researchers, the evidence accumulated in the 1970s seems overwhelming that televised violence and aggression are positively correlated in children. The issue now is what processes produce the relation. Four such processes have been suggested ; observational learning, attitude changes, physiological arousal, and justification processes. Observational Learning Proponents of the observational learning theory hold that children learn to behave aggressively from the violence they...
Page 64 - DeFleur. M. Occupational roles as portrayed on television. Public Opinion Quarterly. 1964. 28, 57-74.
Page 6 - medium as the message" came to be studied again in the 1970s. Much of what children, and others, see on television is not only the content. They learn the meaning of television's forms and codes — its camera techniques, sound effects, and organization of programs. Some of the effects of television can be traced to its forms, such as fast or slow action, loud or soft music, camera angles, and so on. Some researchers suggest that fast action, loud music, and stimulating camera tricks may account...
Page 5 - ... normal" characters, twice as many mentally ill characters on television are violent or are the victims of others' violence. Even though very few characters on television are ill, many more doctors are evident than are in real life. Much of television's content seems to foster poor nutrition, especially in commercials for sweets and snack foods. Children who watch a lot of television have poorer nutritional habits than children who do not watch as much. Alcohol consumption is common; it is condoned...
Page 1 - I am exceedingly troubled by the lack of any definitive information which would help resolve the question of whether there is a causal connection between televised crime and violence and antisocial behavior by individuals, especially children.