PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Overview Effect, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence, Watching Movies
3 Mar 2017
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What impact do the media have on the development of various children. Effect of media on development very controversial - when research says that a portion of the media is not acceptable it costs the company producing it money and therefore they will attempt to discredit the research. Are the media demonstrably bad for children - is this for real or are people overreacting. Issues in research on effects of media. Random assignment to violent programming or extensive video gaming is not acceptable. You need to pick children who choose violent media and children who pick tamer media; pre-existing groups. Goal of sesame street is to prepare children for school. This could be their only exposure to academics before school. Based on work of morrisett (1966) - founded programs to help these at risk kids. In the rst year, about 50% of children watched sesame street daily.
