In a society that is conquered by television, movies, billboards, commercials, video games and the Internet, the influence media has on today's youth is substantial. ... Children are significantly influenced by what they see and hear in Television and other forms of media. ... Continuously watching violent media, influences children to behave aggressively and they may grow up with violent tendencies. ... Violent video games train kids to react aggressively to conflict. ... Evidently, children's perceptions of the world are greatly influenced by media. ...

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While the impact of mass media can be very educational and positive, Parents should monitor what their kids watch and do, because it can lead to children becoming violent or showing aggressive behavior not only in school, but also at home., it takes away their ability to socialize positively, and it can be a major influence in behavioral growth and forming values. ... The influence that television and the media has on most children is stronger than what is being taught by their parents. ... Television is a very influential tool and/or teacher parents must be aware of what their kids are watch...

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A report from NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health - confirms the immense influence of television on behavior. ... -Oct. 1984) "despite slight variations over the past decade, the amount of violence on television has remained consistently at high levels" (23), and (Methvin, January 1983) "the Saturday morning "kid vid ghetto" is the most violent time on T.V" (49). ... One comprises of parents, researchers, scientists and other public institutions that show a concern towards the damage in the form of violent behaviors due to the influence of T.V violence. ... The question is would you lik...

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Violent video games influence the youth more than elders, which may lead to future violence. ... Teenagers exposed to immense amounts of violence tend to have a "cold heart," which means they simply do not care what happens to the kids they harass. ... Games like Grand Theft Auto have very strong language, also containing sexual elements, and obscene violence, which may influence the mind of an adolescent. Since the brain of an adolescent is still developing; they are still prone to making to making poor decisions, which may have influenced them by the violent video games that they p...

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Since shortly after the introduction of video games, there has been debate over the violent nature of some of these games and the influence they have on their players who are mainly children. Some argue that video games may have an influence on a child's aggression, but some believe that these games offer players the mechanism to release aggressive tendencies. ... The study also found that the period when people are most susceptible to external influences is during preadolescent childhood, and exposure after that period does not have any influence on their behavior (Centerwall 306). ...

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(Anderson and Bushman 353) The leaders of the video gaming industry are rightly trying to get out from under this stigma of making kids commit violent crimes. ... If scientists cannot agree on the kind of aggression being shown when kids play these video games how can we assume that playing these video games can cause a violent act? ... In the article, The Influence of Violent and Non-violent Computer Games on Implicit Measures of Aggressiveness, a study was completed. ...

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Under those circumstances, children will be influence from those violent games, and it is obvious that violent video games cause behavior problems. ... Studies have demonstrated that kids who spend long hours on playing video games perform weaker in school (Anderson & Bushman.) ... The boy, according to the defense attorneys, was influenced by video game addiction (Harvey.) ... Bushman "the 33 independent test of the relation between video game violence and aggression, involving 3,033 participants, the average effect size was positive and significant" these tests have concluded that long t...

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Role modeling is the most important way to influence a child's behavior. ... On a personal level, however, it is up to parents, teachers, and the rest of us to lesson the amount of violence kids actually see. So people should take such steps to prevent kids from violence and put them into action. ...

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White House officials lecture film, music, Internet, fashion, and pop-culture tycoons and accuse them of programming kids to smoke, drink shoot up, have sex, and kill. ... The compiled evidence of the media's influence on behavior is so "overwhelming- that there is a consensus in the research community that "violence in the media does lead to aggressive behavior- (Methvin 49). ... Michael Howe claims, "Over many years, little more than lip service has been paid by the television networks to the expressed need to protect children from the injurious influences (Chaffee 9). History show...

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., a child and adolescent psychiatrist in San Francisco, "Kids are exposed to too much violence.... In addition to teaching children bad habits, desensitizing violence is a bad influence on the younger generations that play violent video games. ...

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The violent tape chosen was Karate Kid III and the nonviolent tape was Gorillas in the Mist. In experiments using these two videos, higher levels of anger and aggressive behavior were found in participants who saw the Karate Kid III video than in participants who saw the Gorillas in the Mist video (Bushman, 1998). ... The frequency and legitimacy of violent acts on television also influences viewers to model their acts after what they have seen on television. ...

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Contrary to many parents' expectations, video games are no longer, and one must question if they ever were, just for kids. ... Whether video games can influence players to commit violent acts or if individuals can shrug off a video game experience as being wholly fictitious and inappropriate for the real world is a topic of much dispute. Nevertheless, the adverse effects of video games not only through visual stimuli but also through audio stimuli on individuals' thoughts, individuals obliviously learn to become more aggressive through a process called modeling, and the fact that the...

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