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Tv Violane

Intro to Psychology

TV Violence and Children

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Introduction

1. Defination of Violence
2. Reasons of violence
3. Effects
4. Solution
5. The V ship
6. Summary and Conclusion

Introduction

What is violence? Do you think that children who watch violence on television will show violent behavior? What about the terrible tragedies in which kids kill other kids, why? Many studies have been done to answer the question of television violence and its effects on children.
How and why does mass media influence people? In particular, how and why does television violence cause aggression (if indeed it does)?
The social psychology point of view includes the "arousal theory", the "social learning" theory, the "disinhibition" theory, and the "aggression reduction" theory, all of which will be defined and discussed in this paper. There are other theories such as the "social comparison" theory and the "modeling precision" theory which are excluded from consideration here due to limitations of length. Yet no one theory has predominated, and the debates on media and violence, in particular, have heated up over the years. This paper presents an integrated, albeit brief, examination of the key questions and the difficulties in answering them scientifically .
The social psychology of television has been analyzed since before television became the dominant broadcast medium. Carl Hovland expressed the opinion almost 50 years ago that "while we do not today have a 'psychology of communications' we now have all the essential ingredients -- the research techniques, the concepts and hypotheses, and the problems -- to permit developing a genuine science of communications in the coming decade or two" (Schramm, 1948, p.65).
He laid out the task of analysis as consisting of three aspects:
"(1) the cues (or stimuli) transmitted by the communicator; (2) the responses made by the communicate; (3) the laws and principles relating these two...