Are young children exposed to too much violence?

  Banddura and colleagues showed children a film of an adult aggressively playing with a Bobo doll but this time the film ended in one of three different ways. the first version the control condition they are the other experience no, consequences for the aggressive behavior and the second version the adult was rewarded for the aggressive behavior with candy and praise in the third version The adult was punished for the behavior by being both spanked and verbally reprimanded. When the children were subsequently allowed to play with the Bobo doll those who observe the model being rewarded for aggressive behavior world were much more likely to be aggressive towards the doll than were the children who watched the control condition of the film. In contrast, those who saw the model being punished were less likely to be aggressive then were those in the control group. Through vigorous conditioning, people learn about the consequences of an action by watching others being rewarded or punished for performing the action. This in turn affects peoples on likelihood to and engage in that behavior at a later time . Assignment: Do the findings of the Bobo doll experiment cause you to reconsider the amount of hours that children are exposed to in movies video games and on television. Is this the average child exposed to much? Do you believe that exposure to valance in the above mentioned media is likely to make children more violent? Was Bandura's experiments realistic? Can children make the distinction between play violence and real violence?