Children and television violence

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Psychology

 

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Cory W

 

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January 22, 2012

 

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University

 

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The children were presented with a checklist of 80 television programs. The 80 programs used were the most popular that year according to the Nielsen ratings for 6-11-year old children. The amount of on-screen physical violence portrayed on each television program was coded by two raters on a 5-point scale from not violent to very violent...
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The amount of on-screen physical violence portrayed on each television program was coded by two raters on a 5-point scale from not violent to very violent. The raters were Psychology graduate students who were trained to follow a written list for what constituted violence. Some examples of shows rated as very violent were Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man and Roadrunner cartoons...
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