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Fantasy-Reality Distinctions of Four- and Five-Year-Old Middle-Income White Children in Relation to their Television Viewing Preferences and Habits

Methods of study include two questionnaires and eight photographs of television characters used while interviewing sixty children, ages four and five. The data showed that the children actively selected the television programs they watched rather than watching at random. They watched television regularly and named the programs they watched. The children perceived a great amount of parental supervision in their viewing of television. Most children were able to understand the concepts of fantasy and reality, to distinguish between those concepts, and to apply them to specific television program characters and their actions. However, the five-year-olds showed a greater tendency to identify television program characters as make-believe.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504241
Date05 1900
CreatorsLinn, Hilda
ContributorsSchmidt, Velma, Marder, Carl J., III
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 86 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Linn, Hilda, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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