Charlton childrens playground behaivour across five years of broadcast television

Question 1

aim of the study

Answer 1

to investigate the effects of television on children’s behaviour

Question 2

Procedure of the study

Answer 2

The experiment was done in a natural environment where the researchers did not direly manipulate the introduction of television and only recorded the behaviour of children before and after the introduction of television.

The researchers recorded the behaivour of children 4 months before the introduction of mainland television and used video cameras to observe the playground behaivour of children between 3 to 8 yrs.

Five years after the introduction of mainland television a 2 week time period was recorded to note the act of a single boy/girl, girl/boy group and mixed groups

The behaivour was recorded using PBOS, playground behaivour observation schedule which is basically antisocial and prosocial behaivour

Question 3

results of the study

Answer 3

Nine differences were found

5 declines in prosocial behaivour for boy and girl single pairs while there were 2 increases in single boys playing alone and 2 decreases in prosocial behaivour of boys and girls.

no change in antisocial behaivour

Boys seems to have a tendency to display more anti social acts than girls and girls were slightly more likely to show prosocial behaivour. Both girls and boys displayed twice as much prosocial behaivour.

Question 4

Conclusion

Answer 4

Television had little effect on the behaivour of children studied and that children didnt imitate the aggression displayed on tv

But it could have been due to the high level of adult suprevision that couldve explained why tv had such little effect on children

Question 5

1 strenght

Answer 5

The same primary schools were studied before and after the introduction of tv. The fact that same environments were used minimised the difference that could have occurred between different schools

Question 6

1 weakness

Answer 6

the findings may be limited to this particular community as Tannis williams found that when conducting similar studies in canada television did in fact increase aggression among children