Tv Violence And Children

tv violence and children
Topic: Effects of Television violence and Children
Thesis Statement:
Although the television serves as a form of entertainment, when you abuse its use, and make it a habit to watch, it gives negative effects on the behavior of children especially in their brain’s development.
Purpose of the Research:
This paper aims to show the:
* Effects of televisionviolence on children.
Outline:
I.INTRODUCTION
II. HIPOTHESIS & METHOD
A. CHILDREN & PARENTS QUESTIONAIRE
1. HOW IT CAN AFFECT ONE’S BEHAVIOUR
2. RESPONSE OF CHILDREN
B.EFFECTS & RESULTS
1. NEGATIVE EFFECTS
a. Behavior of children
b. Brain development
C. Discussion


III. CONCLUSION
IV. Reference Page
V. BibliographyTelevision violence and its effects on viewers has been a 
controversial issue for many years. Some viewers believe that there is 
an increasingly large amount of violence on television and this 
widespread public concern has: 

“Led to calls for stricter controls on the depiction of violence in 
programs." (Gunter and McAleer 1990) 

. The vast majority of research is inconclusive butdemonstrates strong 
links between viewing violence and committing violent acts. To try and 
add value to previous research I conducted my own research through 
collating information from questionnaires issued to parents and 
children in my best friend work place New Era Educational School in Toa Baja PR; however the results did not directly 
support my hypothesis. 

I chose this research topicbecause I have a three year old boy who I babysit from time to time and enjoys watching television. I thought it may give me an insight into 
the effect these so called, children’s programs are actually having 
on him, if any. 

INTRODUCTION 

The sole purpose of this project is to examine whether children behave 
differently after they have been watching violence on television. In 
additionthe question that is of paramount importance to this whole 
piece of investigative work is: 

· Are children more likely to imitate acts of violence or aggressive 
behavior because of what they have seen on television? 

A continuing debate between Broadcasters and Scientists is permanently 
ongoing and in spite of the accumulation of evidence between the links 
of viewing televisionviolence and children’s behavior the debate 
goes on. 

Furthermore, media professionals would rather believe that television 
has no effects other than those intended, thousands of studies have 
pointed to casual relationships between television violence and 
real-life crime. In spite of numerous research studies, the perception 
continues that the effects of television violence are unclear,even 
contradictory. 

Moreover, blaming the media could be an easy option for some and can 
serve to divert attention from other causes or change going on in a 
child’s life, and so claims about the, “Effects of Television” could 
be massively exaggerated. 

This ongoing debate has inspired a great deal of research, one of the 
most well known and publicized experiments was that ofAlbert 
Bandura’s Bobo doll studies, which are now widely regarded as early 
research classics in the field of psychology. I am going to discuss 
this experiment in greater detail within this project and hopefully 
link it with more recent research, my own research and observations to 
support my hypothesis. 

HYPOTHESIS & METHOD 

HYPOTHESIS: It is predicted that children will imitateviolence or 
display violent behavior after viewing violence on television. 

METHOD: 

My initial first step of this investigation was to carry out literacy 
research in my chosen topic, in order to gain a more in-depth 
knowledge of the subject area. This involved searching Internet web 
sites, books, newspaper articles, magazines and of course watching a 
television programme on the...