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Research: TV & Children; Television, Health and Development 

Source:

TV & Children: Television, Health and Development 

http://depts.washington.edu/tvhealth/materials/third-party-resources/TV-Children-Television-Health-Development.pdf
My Topic:
TV influences kids in a negative way.

What I hope to learn from this source:
I want to find more psychological problems that TV gives children.

Notes:

Too much TV during the early years has been linked to: 

1. Poor performance in school, especially in the areas of language and reading. If TV is substituted for reading and talking with others at a young age, children may have delayed language development.

2. Being less able to use imagination. Too much TV can lead to an overload on the visual part of the brain, while depriving other parts of the brain. Areas of the brain responsible for creative thought and imagination are under used because watching television doesn’t require these skills.

3. Not being able to tell apart television from the real world.

4. Problems focusing. Too many fast paced images from TV watching keeps the brain from learning how to pay attention and also the instant stimulus of TV can cause a children to become impatient in complex situations.

5. Poor skills in planning and judging. The areas of the brain responsible for these skills are under used and not fully developed if a young child watches too much television and plays too many video games.

6. More likely to be violent when problems occur. Television and video game violence is thought to be responsible for 10% to 20% of all real-life violence.

 

 Final Thoughts:

Now I found the enough stuffs that prove that TV influences child negatively in the area of psychology! From now on I need to persuade opposite side.