hear, as the saying goes monkey see monkey do. .
According to Jeanne Beckman children's television programs actually.
contain five times more violence then the average prime time news hour.
Considering that it has also been said by Beckman that children watch an.
average of twenty-eight hours of television a week. That is a lot of violence.
children could be watching. The child could be affected in many ways, by.
becoming aggressive, fearful or less sensitive to others.
Children are impacted everyday by violence on television. With regard.
to the issue of the Mean World Syndrome, there have been numerous studies.
conducted by a research group at the University of Pennsylvania, led by.
George Gerbner (Television 2). For more than 25 years, this group has.
studied the content of prime time and Saturday morning television. In the fall.
of each year, they videotape all prime time and Saturday morning television.
for one week and then provide a detailed analysis of the content of that.
programming. With regard to violence, the findings indicate that, over the.
years, there are about 5 violent acts committed during every hour of prime.
time television and 20 to 25 violent acts committed every hour of Saturday.
morning children's programming. Of course, the levels of violence have varied.
somewhat over the 20 years of monitoring, particularly in the area of.
children's television programming ( Television 2). .
Aggression is very evident with children watching violent shows.
Children who view shows in which violence is very realistic frequently.
repeated or unpunished are more likely to imitate what they see (TV 2). This.
is visible in a study done at Penn State University. About one hundred.
preschool children were observed before and after watching television. Some.
of the children watched cartoons that had many violent acts; others watched.
shows that didn't have any violent acts. The researchers noticed a real.
difference between the children who watched violent shows and those who.