TV
- Can lead to aggressive behavior.
- Can terrify children.
- Provides violent heroes to imitate.
- Shows that violence is OK.
Television involves:
- Less use of imagination.
- Less direct contact with other persons.
- Less pretend play.
Video Games
- “Fight” or “flight” response to stress.
- Adrenaline-fueled body.
- Hypervigilant children.
- Excitement leads to stress, feeling of burn-out.
- Emotional shutdown.
- Reaction without thinking.
- No high level of thinking.
News
- Lose sense of safety.
- Lose sense of emotional, social well-being.
- Don’t understand the logic, motives of what is shown.
- Focus on most salient aspects of what is seen or heard.
- Relate what they see and hear to what they know.