Mary Jackson Pitts, Ph.D.

 

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Television & Behavior
        
 Ten Years of Progress

 Volume I & Volume II

     (1) television and health

     (2) violence and aggression

     (3) prosocial behavior

     (4) cognitive and affective aspects of viewing

     (5) the family and interpersonal relations

     (6) social beliefs and social behavior

     (7) Television's effects on American society

 




Findings of report      

causal relationship between televised violence and later aggressive behavior

Television's
  form & codes   




Concept of arousal and its relationship to aggressive behavior.  

Prosocial effects

One sentence summary

       Almost all the evidence testifies to television's role as a formidable educator whose effects are both persuasive and cumulative. 

 Research findings

 Television and Behavior, Ten Years of Progress 1982

   (1) Focus Shifts 

   (2) Moves from short term direct effects to searching for long term indirect effects

   (3) Shift in paradigms from cognitive approach to meaning 

   (4)  TV is an educator