Children and the media

Question 1

Anderson and Pempek 2005

Answer 1

• television is not positive for young children as they learn better from direct experience

Question 2

Robb et al 2009

Answer 2

• got children to watch a DVD with 30 words on it

- children under 2 years old did not learn anymore words than a control group which did not watch the DVD

Question 3

Fisch 2004

Anderson et al 2001

Answer 3

• Sesame Street helped preschoolers and had positive effects on boys and girls, helped all social classes and had long term benefits

Question 4

Ciole et al 2003

Answer 4

• success with Sesame Street is cross-cultural
• tested on Jewish and Palestine children, found that exposure to Sesame Street was associated with increased pro-social solving of problems and using positive attributes to describe other cultures

Question 5

Linebarger and Walker 2005

Answer 5

• found evidence that the more TV children watched the lower their language and cognitive performance after watching a wide range of programmes

Question 6

Wilson et al 2002

Answer 6

• suggested that the most frequent aggression shown in programmes is aimed at children

Question 7

Cullingford 1984

Answer 7

• older children are able to distinguish fantasy figures shown on TV from real life