Describe the benefits for children of watching educational television, such as Sesame Street
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Sesame Street uses lively visual and sound effects to stress basic literacy and number concepts and puppet and human characters to teach general knowledge, emotional and social understanding, and social skills. Time devoted to watching children’s educational programs, including Sesame Street, is associated with gains in early literacy and math skills and academic progress in elementary school. One study reported a link between preschool viewing of Sesame Street (and similar educational programs) and getting higher grades, reading more books, and placing more value on achievement in high school.
Children’s programs with slow-paced action and easy-to-follow narrativesare associated with improved executive function, greater recall of program content, gains in vocabulary and reading skills, and more elaborate make-believe play than programs presenting quick, disconnected bits of information. Narratively structured educational programming eases processing demands, facilitating attention and freeing up space in working memory for applying program content to real-life situations.
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A) is a one-way street. B) moves from genes to environment to behavior. C) is best measured using heritability estimates. D) is bidirectional.
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A. Social facilitation B. Groupthink C. Social loafing D. Polythink
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a) Lower intelligence and problems with verbal and auditory language processing b) Low weight and inadequate growth/height c) Hyperactivity and distractibility d) Antisocial behavior, irritability, aggression, and delinquency