Developmental changes in how children understand television
- Authors
-
-
- Keywords:
- social behavior, social psychology, development changes, children, understand, television, social interaction, cognitive development, age, television scenes, spontaneous reconstructions, television characters, literal repetition of dialogue, psychological
- Abstract
- The purpose of this research was to study how children understand scenes of social interaction that are portrayed on television and how their understanding changes as a function of age and cognitive development. Measures were obtained from children's spontaneous reconstructions of television scenes and also from their responses to a series of specific questions regarding the thoughts and feelings of particular television characters. It was found that younger and less cognitively mature viewers were more likely to structure televised social content in terms of overt descriptive features, action, and literal repetition of dialogue. Older children and adolescents were more likely to consider the inferential aspects of social interaction and to offer interpretations based on people's psychological qualities.
- References
- Downloads
- Published
- 1982-08-01
- Issue
- Volume 10, 1982, Issue 2
- Section
- Articles
- License
-
Author(s) agree that copyright of an article published in SBP Journal is transferred from the author(s) to the journal publisher (Scientific Journal Publishers Limited) upon publication.
Disclaimer
Social Behavior and Personality maintains an open editorial policy and may or may not endorse the conclusions made in its published articles. Neither the journal nor its publisher, editors or staff assume any responsibility for any material considered to be offensive or defamatory, or for obtaining any copyright permissions necessary for publication of articles.