The Effects Of Television On A

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socialized to learn from television had lower than normal expectations about the amount of mental effort required to learn from written texts, and tended to read less and perform relatively poorly in school.”(Development of Children 24) Which means that it takes very little effort to follow a television show and kids are raised on television believe that it takes less effort to learn from television rather than books because they have been “spoon-fed” information by television. “Opportunities for a child’s imagination to develop are also denied by habitual viewing.” (Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain) Children need some unstructured time to
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allow imagination skills to form by thinking about a book or story, a conversation, or an event.
“Television also conditions a child to dual stimui: sound and images.”(Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain) The constant and rapidly changing sound and images can ...

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decreases they’re learning ability. “Schools expect kindergarten through second graders to have short attention spans, but also expect attention capability to increase with grade level. When that doesn’t happened children is disadvantaged. A student who,
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Month after month, is inattentive in class may well find it difficult to learn the material being presented.
Television also interferes with the development of reading skills. “A child must learn to move the eyes back and fourth across the page in order to read.”(The Development of Children 63) But with television, the eyes are fixed on the screen. One hour a day in school ...

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