Some sample questions from this category:
* Studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the average teenager spent 6 1/2 hours per day watching television, videos, or DVDs. How much time per day did the average teen spend reading books?
* Patti Valkenburg and Moniek Buijzen of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research conducted a study involving 2 year olds and TV. What surprising things did they find that 2 year olds could recognize easily, after seeing them on TV?
* Education professor and author Lawrence Kelemen stated, "The television industry is not in the business of selling programs to audiences. It is in the business of..."
* A study from Children?s Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle, released in 2004, found that children who watched TV between the ages of 1 and 3 were at an increased risk for what malady?
* Frederick J. Zimmerman of the University of Washington, Seattle studied the effects of parental emotional support, cognitive stimulation (such as reading to and interacting with the child) and television watching on whether children grew up to be bullies. What did he find?
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