Social Learning Theory and The Effect of TV Violence on Children

Influence of Social Learning Theory and TV Violence on Children In the United States, children are watching television on average for 3-4 hours a day (Cantor & Wilson, 1984, p. 28). Television has a great influence on the development of value system and the formation of behavior. Unfortunately, most of today's TV programs are violent. After examining the influence of television violence on children and young people, I found that children are not sensitive to violence. Therefore, they tend to gradually accept violence as a way to solve the problem by imitating violence to observe on television; they agree with certain people, good or bad.

In the past 30 years, thousands of studies are studying the impact of TV violence on children. Although there are other factors such as intelligence, social position, style of child rearing, seeing violence on television is related to the aggressiveness of men and women. It is said to have a strong influence on the development of value systems and the formation of behavior. Obviously, seeing violence on TV is not the only effect, the effect depends on the age of the child. Studies have shown that the influence of television violence is greatest at a very young age. The type of violence seen seems to also lead to different reactions. It is thought that violence that is not considered evil or does not lead to punishment, disapproved violence or human suffering is the most likely violence that leads children to aggressive sex

Children under the age of 8 are most affected by the daily violence on TV. This age is important for the development of children and they are learning social behavior to be with them throughout their life. At this age, it is difficult for children to distinguish between fantasies and reality. The study showed that they began to form beliefs on aggression. These TV programs are sending messages to children all over the U.S., Yes, violence is acceptable, no one wants to stop it

Violence against television affects the perception of the children themselves, the world, and other people. In fact, experts warn that seeing violence may have a lifelong negative impact on the health of children. When the children finish their studies, ordinary children will watch over 100,000 violent acts on TV, including 8,000 murders. The more violent children see on television, the more likely they take extreme action, react sensitively to the pain and suffering of others, or fear the surrounding world.