PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psych, High Standard Manufacturing Company, Diana Baumrind
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Concern for parents because it takes up a lot of kid"s times. Most common experience that children have tv is the universal experience that children have. Effects: on family relationships/interactions, on physical fitness, school performance, additional pass times (reading) We know that children who watch a lot of tv have poor school achievement and poor relations with their peers. Def: overt expression of force intended to hurt or ill: this is pretty specific, does(cid:374)"t include accidents or destruction of property. Aggressive school age children and teens watch more tv than other children and the shows they watch are more violent. This is a correlational relationship, ca(cid:374)"t tell cause and effect from this. Bandura studies: aggressive model, non-aggressive model, no model. William et al. study (ubc: a) no tv, a community without access to tv, b) recent tv, c) long-term tv, children more aggressive the longer exposed to tv looked at playground aggression, longer tv higher aggression.
