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¶ … Watching Cartoons Have a Violent Effect on Children?
What children see from others affect their perceptions of things. This is what most people believe, considering that children are naive. Thus, their judgments on what is right and wrong are oftentimes based on what they see around their environment. Hence, it is the usual suggestion of psychologists to show good examples to children. The question is, what about the things around them, which can be the source of influences, which we cannot control?
One of the components that is said to affect people, especially the children, is the media. This includes the news, the radio, and the television. To children, specifically, it is the programs that they watch in television that can have large influence to them. This is one argument though that many psychologists would like to prove or disprove. As a focus of this paper, we will try to review researches and studies to answer this argument, specifically the question...
Like movies played by real people, cartoons have themes of drama, action, comedy, as well as cartoons that provide good moral values and lessons to children. The question of whether cartoons have a violent effect on children can perhaps be answered by these themes of cartoon shows. Cartoons that present stories on good moral character can be considered as not detrimental to the personal attitude of children. If we are to watch such kinds of cartoon shows, it can be realized that they can, in contrast to violence, enhance the conduct of children due to the moral lessons of the stories. However, on other types of cartoon shows like action stories, this is where the question of violence can be applied.
From Peters and Blumberg's (2002) study, whether cartoons can have good or bad effect on children is hard to identify. This is…
Bibliography
Peters, K.M., Blumberg, F.C. (2002). Cartoon Violence: Is it as Detrimental to Preschoolers
As We Think? Early Childhood Educational Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 143-148.
Nathanson, A., Cantor, J. (2000). REDUCING THE AGGRESSION-PROMOTING EFFECT OF VIOLENT CARTOONS BY INCREASING CHILDREN'S FICTIONAL INVOLVEMENT WITH THE VICTIM: A STUDY OF ACTIVE MEDIATION.
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( Enderson) Nathanson and Cantor (2000) concur with this assessment and also make the important point that "…the negative consequences of violence to victims are seldom shown on television" (Nathanson & Cantor, 2000, p. 125) This study refers to the way that older cartoons tended to diminish the consequences and results of extreme violence. "Many children's programs-especially the so-called classic cartoons (e.g., "Bugs Bunny," "Woody Woodpecker")-present violence in a
Children and Television Over time, television has become a must have household item/electronic for most American households. Today, unlike several decades ago, a television viewer has a wide range of channels to choose from. However, the ever increasing relevance of the television set has not come without criticism. In most cases, the criticism that has been leveled against television viewing has largely been founded on the impact it has on its
Children: Exposure to Violence Through the Media The extent to which exposure to violence creates violent children and/or aggressive behavior is a subject which has been debated in a comprehensive manner. However, the fundamental research findings are consistent. The research continues to demonstrate that exposure to violence creates negative manifestations in the behavior of children. "While violence is not new to the human race, it is an increasing problem in modern
Children and Television Television may be an almost universal feature on the domestic scene, however it is not sued I the same way by everyone who has access to a set (Gunter 1). The television set has become an integral piece of the household furniture, and practically every house has at least one set, if not more, which means that children are born into a world in which television is present
The study in this report involved a 14-year-old adolescent female who was 5-feet 2-inches and weighed 132 pounds; she was given a challenge to walk for exercise and use an exercise machine at home -- and in turn she agreed to cut back on television and other media usage. The bottom line was, she lost weight, but moreover, one year after the study she was increasing the level of
In D.A. Gentile (Ed.), Media violence and children. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishing. [the authors of this book contend that learning comes from repetition. The fact that the violent games require violent acts to be played over and over again creates an ideal learning situation. But what the players are learning is antisocial behavior and the idea that violence is a good way to resolve conflict.] Hockenbury, S.E. & Hockenbury, DH