Medi Placing Seeds Of Aggression In Children

Violent Media: Placing Seeds of Aggression into our Children According to Anderson (2001), “Violent Media is defined as media that shows a depiction of any kind of intentional harm.” This can include media such as cartoons, television shows, and video games. Over the years, this type of media has greatly increased it’s popularity and can be seen on many televisions across the United States. There are statistics that prove this, such as, “73% of fourth grade boys report that the majority of their favorite games are violent ones”(Anderson 2001 p. 354) People have begun to question this type of media’s effect on aggressive and even violent behavior, especially in children. I believe this violent media and its exposure to the youth is leading to the use of violent behavior in children. Therefore, I agree with the claim that watching violent movies and playing video games leads to aggressive and violent behavior.

In one group, the adults would ignore the “Bobo doll” and play non aggressively with the other toys. In the other group, the adult would play aggressively with the “Bobo doll,” beating it with their hands and a hammer. After this, the children would go and play in the room. In the first group, all the children played with the toys non-aggressively, ignoring the doll. But in the other group, the children played with the doll rather aggressively, similar to the way they had just witnessed the model play with it. (Ciccarelli, 2015) This study proves that watching violence leads to violence from the