s of television, they come to expect that in the real world. When the violence is not there, they see the world as bland and unexciting (Effects 2).
Television can cause violence in many different ways, children may start to create violence to satisfy themselves. They may imitate the behavior of those that are featured on their daily shows. The ideas that are portrayed to them on television are much more provocative then anything they could think up on their own (Televison 2). Children don't understand that the violence they see on television cartoons don't happen in real life. Children under the age of eight don't have enough real world experience to know what is realistic and what is not (Tepperman 1). For example, when adults see a person's head blown off, they know that that type of act doesn't happen on a frequent basis. Whereas younger children's television shows rarely inform the audience of the negative consequences of violence. Seventy-three percent of violence on television is depicted without criticisms or penalty (Tepperman 1)
Many violent scenes seem to arouse children's who watch a lot of television. They are less bothered by violence in general and are less likely to see anything wrong with it (Beckman 2). In a study done at Pennsylvania State University, researchers observed on hundred preschool students, before and after they had watch television. Half of the children watched cartoons that contained a lot of aggressive and violent behavior, while the others half-watched show without any violence. When placed back in the normal
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