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What does the following ratings mean? TVY TVY7 TVY7FV TV14 TVMA Do children have the capacity to distinguish between violence seen on TV and violence in the real world? How does the National Institute for the Media and Family categorize media violence? How long does the typical child sit in front of the TV daily? What organization rates video games and for what purpose? What essential theme has remained consistent throughout history? What role does desensitization play in TV violence? How does the brain react to violent media? How can heavy media violence affect a child’s worldview? What are your comments on both "Children's Television Viewing" and "Advice for Parents on TV Watching", below? Children’s Television Viewing In 1992, the American Psychological Association’s nine-member task force on television, noted the following facts: The average child sees 100,000 acts of violence and 8,000 murders before the end of elementary school

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1. What does the following ratings mean?
   1. TVY
   2. TVY7
   3. TVY7FV
   4. TV14
   5. TVMA
2. Do children have the capacity to distinguish between violence seen on TV and violence in the real world?
3. How does the National Institute for the Media and Family categorize media violence?
4. How long does the typical child sit in front of the TV daily?
5. What organization rates video games and for what purpose?
6. What essential theme has remained consistent throughout history?
7. What role does desensitization play in TV violence?
8. How does the brain react to violent media?
9. How can heavy media violence affect a child’s worldview?
10. What are your comments on both "Children's Television Viewing" and "Advice for Parents on TV Watching", below?

Children’s Television Viewing

In 1992, the American Psychological Association’s nine-member task force on television, noted the following facts:

• The average child sees 100,000 acts of violence and 8,000 murders before the end of elementary school.
• The rate of violence on primetime TV is five to six incidents per hour but on Saturday mornings, it’s 20 to 25.
• Minorities are virtually absent and when they do show up, they are often victims or criminals.
• Men are major primetime characters three times more often than women.
• Sex-stereotyped TV messages do increase children’s sex-stereotyped beliefs.
• The probability of obesity in children increases by 2 percent with every hour per day of TV viewing.
• TV has no clear effect on school achievement or academic skills.
• Boys watch more TV than girls do—including cartoons, action shows, news, and sports.
• Girls who watch the most TV have the most negative attitudes toward women.

The second volume of the National Television Violence study, released in March 1997, suggested that children’s TV remains steeped in violence (Seepa, 1997). The study covered programming on 23 channels, seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. and explored the effect of ratings and public service announcements. Among the important findings were the following:

• Fifty-eight percent of TV programs contained violence.
• Seventy-three percent of these programs contained violence with no remorse, negative evaluation, or penalty for the violence.
• Few programs showed the long-term consequences of physical aggression.
• The TV-program warning “parental discretion advised” and the age-based motion picture ratings “PG-13” and “R” made many children more interested in watching a program rather than less.

Anti-violence public service announcements are rarely useful, largely because they offer vague messages such as “Take control” and “Stay strong.” Those that did show the real consequences of violence, for example, ending up in a wheelchair, seemed to have stronger effects on child viewers.

Advice for Parents on Television Watching

The 1992 APA task force on television provided guidelines for parents to help them regulate their children’s viewing habits. They included the following:

• Maintain an activities time-chart including TV viewing, playing with friends, and homework. Discuss what to eliminate and its substitute.
• Establish a weekly viewing limit. Have the child select programs from television schedules at the beginning of the week. Assign points to specific programs and give a point total for the week. Less desirable programs may cost more to watch.
• Rule out TV at certain times, e.g., mealtimes or on school nights.
• Encourage the entire family to have a program choice before turning the TV on.
• Remember that you provide a model. If you watch lots of TV, chances are your child will too.

In monitoring the violence children see, the report suggested that parents:

• • • Watch at least one episode of the programs their children watch to know its frequency and degree of violence.
    • When viewing violence together, discuss why it occurs and how painful it is. Ask how conflict can be resolved without aggression.
    • Explain how violence on programs is faked.