Media Flashcards
what % of 15 year olds are online (2017)?
92%
what % of 5-7 year olds are online (2017)?
79%
what% of 3-4 year olds are online (2017)?
53%
children and young people spend more time with media than they do..
in school or asleep
what % of parents in the UK use TV as a babysitter?
25%
what % of parents in the UK think that TV is good for children’s education?
42%
according to Lauricella, Wartella & Rideout (2015), what predicted the amount children used media?
parents’ use and attitudes
what did Maares and Pan (2013) discover about watching Sesame Street?
children gained more knowledge about cognitive and social world than prosocial after exposure to sesame street
describe the study on whether children can learn to read from television
Linebarger, Kosanic, Greenwood & Doku (2004). 5/6 yr old kids watched Between the Lions or no tv. kids who watched BTL were better on word recognition. greater increases in letter naming, phonemic segmentation, and nonsense word fluency
describe the study by Robb, Richert & Wartella (2009) on age effects on watching DVD
12 month olds watched DVD 5 times every 2 weeks, assessed 3 times in a 6 week session. no evidence that watching the DVD increased word learning (receptive or expressive). reported parent-child book reading was related to vocab
describe the study about which TV shows develop vocab and which do not
Linebarger & Walker (2005). depends on type of programme. Blues Clues, Dora and Clifford related to vocab development. Teletubbies and Sesame Street not related to increases in vocab
list some short term effects of viewing violence on TV
Huesmann, 2007. priming violence; arousal; mimicry
list some long-term effects of viewing violence on Tv
observational learning; desensitisation; acting out what they see
describe a negative effects of TV on CHILDREN’S social lives
TV violence can lead kids to think of violence as acceptable and a good way to solve conflict
describe a negative effect of TV on ADOLESCENT’S social lives
the more they watch TV, the more they assume their peers are sexually active and are more likely to engage in sexual intercourse themselves. (Ward and Friedman, 2006). also linked to higher pregnancy likelihood.
what is magic window thinking?
the tendency of very young children to believe that TV images are as real as real-life people and objects.