TELEVISION AND VIOLENCE
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A recent poll (1) disclosed that nearly one third of America's 80 million or so families are the most regu)ar T.V. addicts. Now a great deal of research goes on into the mental and moral etrects of T.V. on viewers of ali ages. Americans are so attuned to television that in most homes there are at least two sets: the average American child will witness more than 11,000 murders on television by the time he is 14. School-age children watch between 14 and 49 hours of T.V. a week. At the university of .Utah, psychologists have been examining the proposition that there is a physiologicallink between viewing T.V. violence and a general desensitisation to violence, accompanied by a Jack of concern for the victims of violence. Boys between the ages of 4 and 14 were divided into two groups: those ....
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who habitually watched less than four hours T.V.
a week and
those
who watched a minimum of 25 hours a week.
In the
Utah laboratory, each chitd was invited to view three film
extracts.
Two of these were relatively calm films, white the
third
was an eight-minute sequence from "The Champion",
a Kirk Douglas film in which a brutal boxing-match is depicted.
Results showed that
white the children were watching the calm
films, there was
no observable difference between the two
groups.
When viewing the boxing scenes, however, those
children
who normally saw very little T.V.
reacted much more
strongly to violence than did those
who were accustomed to
many hours
of T.V.
The researchers conclude that the evidence
shows that
"heavy T.V.
watchers" may become relatively
indifferent to violence, and may come to feel comparatively little
concern for the victims
of violence.
ROBERT
SHIELDS,
The Observer Review, March 17 th, 1974.
1.
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1) What did this experiment tend to prove exactly? What do
you think
of the results?
2) Is violence a modern invention?
3)
Can you see any other dangerous consequences of T.V.
viewing? 4) Do you look on T.V.
as a useless gadget or a means of
education?
2.
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" ...
49 hours of T.V.
a
week".
1) What did this experiment tend to prove exact/y? What
do you think
of the results?
This experiment tended to prove the mental and moral effects.
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