What are some benefits and disadvantages to adolescents' increased use of the Internet?
What will be an ideal response?
- Surveys indicate that adolescents spend a considerable amount of time daily interacting with screens; 6.5 hours on average, although that figure is more like 8.5 hours when simultaneous sources, such as cell phones and computers, are taken into account.
- A disadvantage of this trend is that adolescents may impede their face-to-face social competence, interacting instead through social media. Other evidence, however, suggests that social media use may enhance certain social skills.
- Although online video games may seem isolating, interacting with other players can be socially beneficial, and even violent video games may foster the development of cognitive and perceptual skills.
You might also like to view...
One's ____ develops most directly from inheritance
a. concordance rate b. genotype c. phenotype d. nonshared environmental influence (NSE)
Based on IQ score as described by Stern, a student with an IQ score of 120 is likely to answer IQ test questions like someone who is age _____, even though the student is _____
A) 10; 12 B) 12; 11 C) 10; 8 D) 12; 10
Compared to men in the original Milgram study, women participants in later studies obeyed at _________ rates
a. similar b. dissimilar c. lower d. higher
When driving a car at night, ______
a. neither the rods nor the cones experience complete adaptation, so neither operates at maximum efficiency b. only the rods experience complete adaptation and operate at maximum efficiency c. only the cones experience complete adaptation and operate at maximum efficiency d. both the rods and cones experience complete adaptation and operate at maximum efficiency