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Yessenia Cruz

How Television Affects Your Brian Chemistry-- And That's Not All - 0 views

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    A growing number of experts agree that allowing children under the age of three to watch television can impair their linguistic and social development, and also put them at risk of health problems including attention-deficit disorder, autism, and OBESITY. Older kids are also at risk from WATCHING TV. Too much time in front of the tube may: Change your child's views and food choices Make your kids fat Make your kids more materialistic Cause your children to go into more debt as adults Cause your children to be more aggressive Lead to smoking Increase your child's risk of becoming seriously injured
cagordon

The Impact of Television Viewing on Brain Structures: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal ... - 0 views

  • Television (TV) viewing is known to affect children's verbal abilities and other physical, cognitive, and emotional development in psychological studies.
  • We also confirmed negative effects of TV viewing on verbal intelligence quotient (IQ) in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.
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    Decrease in normal brain functions.
kndickerson

The Truth About TV and ADD/ADHD Symptoms - 0 views

  • Too much TV can negatively affect brain development, AAP doctors fear, especially in babies, whose brains are growing rapidly.
  • As reported in the journal Pediatrics in April 2004, researchers at Children's Hospital in Seattle found that the more television a child watches between the ages of 1 and 3, the greater his or her likelihood of developing attention problems by age 7. More specifically, for each extra hour per day of TV time, the risk of concentration difficulties increases by 10 percent, compared with that of a child who views no TV at all. Excessive viewing was associated with a 28 percent increase in attention problems.
  • The Brain Drain Still, their work is a wake-up call. According to Dr. Christakis, the rapidly moving images on TV and in video games may rewire the brains of very young children, making it difficult for them to focus on slower tasks that require more thought. Others say that TV may, at least temporarily, idle the centers in the pre-frontal cortex that are responsible for organizing, planning, and sequencing thought.
ncbueltel

Children who watch too much TV may have 'damaged brain structures' | Mail Online - 0 views

  • MRI brain scans showed children who spent the most hours in front of the box had greater amounts of grey matter in regions around the frontopolar cortex - the area at the front of the frontal lobe.But this increased volume was a negative thing as it was linked with lower verbal intelligence, said the authors, from Tohoku University in the city of Sendai.
  • ‘These areas show developmental cortical thinning during development, and children with superior IQs show the most vigorous cortical thinning in this area,’ the team wrote.They highlighted the fact that unlike learning a musical instrument, for example, programmes we watch on TV ‘do not necessarily advance to a higher level, speed up or vary’.
  • ‘When this type of increase in level of experience does not occur with increasing experience, there is less of an effect on cognitive functioning,’ they wrote.
kfavors010

How TV Affects Your Child - 0 views

  • The first 2 years of life are considered a critical time for brain development. TV and other electronic media can get in the way of exploring, playing, and interacting with parents and others, which encourages learning and healthy physical and social development.
  • Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching TV are more likely to be overweight. Kids who view violent acts are more likely to show aggressive behavior but also fear that the world is scary and that something bad will happen to them. TV characters often depict risky behaviors, such as smoking and drinking, and also reinforce gender-role and racial stereotypes.
kadex27

B. Helen Liu - 1 views

  • In 1962, 77% of a Gallop Poll respondents said they had watched television the day before; in 1988, 91% admitted doing so. Nowadays "an average American spends at least three hours a day in front of a television set" (Glenn 223). Considering the impact of television on reading only in terms of time, conventional wisdom has it that television has a detrimental influence on the development of a person's literacy level simply because that people have allocated less time on reading. Thus it is not surprising for the general public to have the notion that Americans' reading habits are on the decline. Such view is reinforced by the popularity of such books as Jonathan Kozol's Illiterate America, in which Kozol states that more than one-third of American adults cannot read successfully. David Harman, the author of Illiteracy: A National Dilemma, observes that "more and more working members of mainstream America are found to be either totally illiterate or unable to read at the level presumably required by their job or their position in society."
  • Many educators, educational policymakers, and individuals with public influence have suggested that television watching has indeed lowered the academic performance of school children, both in reading and writing, and in mathematics. Support for such assertions frequently appears on television screens. Although children may learn the meaning of some words from watching television, television viewing presumably lessens the time they spend on homework, reading books, listening to adult conversation, and other activities with greater potential (than watching television) for the development of vocabulary, a major component of an individual's literacy proficiency. The increase in television watching by adults may also have adversely affected their development and retention of vocabulary by decreasing such activities as reading and conversing.
cagordon

Television: A Weapon of Mind Destruction? - 0 views

  • Johnson observed that watching TV does not require the use of imaginative thinking because the viewer passively takes in pictures on the screen (2). When children read, however, they generate their own mental images
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