Effects_Of_Learned_Violence_From_Watching_TV

Effects Of Learned Violence From Watching TV Many television programs involve a substantial amount of violence in one form or another that affects people to think that television is the cause of violence in today’s youth. Many have questioned whether television disturbs the minds of adolescent children who can not yet comprehend the truth of fiction and reality. Violent television viewing affects younger children more since their perception of what is real or unreal is not as acute as an older adult - meaning that aggressive adults learned their behavior as children. By watching portrayals of violence, children learn to accept aggressive behavior by becoming desensitized to the effects of violence and imitating it by modeling the actor’s aggressive behaviors. According to the Institute for the Social Research, an aggressive behavior is a learned behavior which is being taught to our children by the media violence that they are exposed to daily (Chen, 1994 p.23). In Aggression – A Social Learning Analysis, written by Albert Bandura, indicates that sometimes watching a single violent program can increase aggressiveness. Children who watch television depicting violence as realistic, unpunished, and frequently repeated are more likely to imitate what they see (Bandura, pg.25). The impact of children, violence, television, aggressive, likely, behavior, violent, viewing, watching, while, third, studies, reality, over, myers, learn, exposed, become, bandura, 2000, watched, watch, very, tend, study, social, school, programs, portrayed, pg, people, one, middle, learned