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The Effects of Television on Cognitive Development

Positive Effects

Negative Effects

  • Stimulate infants' brains and actually promote learning.

  • One study found that TV viewing between ages three and five slightly helped reading scores.

  • Children can learn their alphabet sooner.

  • Children can also get an earlier sense of cultural awareness, diversity, and can develop literacy, imaginative play and ways to deal with feelings sooner as well.

Video -

TV and Child Development:

an interview on NBC news

  • A study from the 1980s found a small correlation between early television exposure at ages 1 and 3 years and symptoms of attention problems at age 7.

  • Television can discourage and replace reading, as well as being active.

  • "Television viewing, when it displaces intellectually rich experiences, has a deleterious effect on children's achievement, (but it is beneficial to children when it provides such experiences.") (Evans Schmidt and Anderson 68).

  • "...if a child spends an hour watching television, that child of necessity spends an hour less in some other activity" (Evans Schmidt and Anderson 70).

This interview addressed a recent 2011 study suggesting fast shows, like SpongeBob SquarePants, can be immediate negative consequences for children's problem solving skills and behavior.

SPOTLIGHT ON:

Sesame Street

  • Intended to be educational in an entertaining way.

Mister Roger's Neighborhood

  • Sesame Street has had the most research done out of all children's TV shows.

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  • It is the second longest running series on PBS, after Sesame Street.
  • "The research has established fairly conclusively that children learn from Sesame Street and that the impact is positive and of long duration.

Conclusion

  • Slower pace, concepts are repeated so child can grasp onto it and retain it.
  • Messages about social responsibility, respect, and self-esteem.

Concerns

Best Educational Children's TV Shows

(in no particular order)

  • Mister Rogers Neighborhood

  • Sesame Street

  • The Magic School Bus

  • Reading Rainbow

  • ZOOM

  • The Electric Company

  • Blue's Clues

  • Between the Lions

  • Caillou
  • Development of attention

  • Effects of television on behavior

  • Should I allow my child to watch TV as a method of learning?

  • On average, children ages 2-5 spend 32 hours a week in front of a TV (watching television, DVDs, DVR and videos, and using a game console)
  • The belief that television is harmful to young children's cognitive skills is mostly opinion - evidence in the research is weak.

  • There are both positive and negative effects of television on cognitive development.
  • Effects are negative unless they are subjected to the right programming at the right time.

  • Content appears to be an important mediator.
  • Educational TV: good
  • Entertainment TV: bad

Sources

Boyse, Kyla, RN. "Television and Children." University of Michigan Health

System. U of Michigan. Web. 23 Sept. 2014.

Dunn, Jeff. "30 TV Shows That Are Actually Educational." Edudemic. Edudemic, 20

Apr. 2011. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

Evans Schmidt, Marie, and Daniel R. Anderson. "The Impact of Television on

Cognitive Development and Educational Achievement." Children and

Television: Fifty Years of Research. Ed. Norma Pecora, John P. Murray, and

Ellen Ann Wartella. Taylor & Francis, 2006. 65-79. Google Books. Web.

22 Sept. 2014.

Kirkorian, Heather L., Ellen Wartella, and Daniel R. Anderson. "Media Effects on

Attention and Other Cognitive Skills." Children and Electronic Media 18.1

(2008). The Future of Children. Web. 19 Sept. 2014.

Langholt, Alice. "Positive Effects of Television on Kids." Life123. Life123,

n.d. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.

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