Children and Media Flashcards
1
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Piaget’s Cognitive Development Stages
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- Sensorimotor (birth-2 yrs)
- Preoperational (2-7 yrs)
- concrete operational (7-11 yrs)
- Formal operational (11 - death)
2
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Sensorimotor development stage
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- learning language
- discovering physical world
- object permanence
- cause and effect
- Tv appeals through sights, colors, sounds, voices, and music
3
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Preoperational development stage
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- Begin to utilize symbols
- Make guesses about motives
- Group things
- TV appeals through short stories, cartoons, characters
4
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Concrete operational development stage
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- classification skills
- mental recreations
- perspective taking of others
- TV appeals through longer shows, storylines, humor, simple problem-solution
5
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Formal operational development stage
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- abstract thinking
- TV appeals through mystery, crime stories, complex social problems, sci-fi relationships
6
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Kohlberg’s moral development stages
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- Preconventional
- Conventional
- Postconventional
7
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Preconventional moral development stage
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based on punishment/reward, self-interest orientation
8
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Conventional moral development stage
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acceptance of society’s conventions concerning right and wrong. Maintain social order and listen to authority
9
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Postconventional moral development stage
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ignoring convention and living by one’s own ethical principles - do the greatest good by what is intuitively right
10
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Effects of concern on children
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- violence
- sex
- stereotyping
- Identity formation
- self-perception
11
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Displacement hypothesis
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postulates that TV has displaced traditional interests of children
