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Communicating More than Content: Formal Features of Children's Television Programs.
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Huston, Aletha C.; And Others – Journal of Communication, 1981
Presents a taxonomy of formal features of television and examines ways in which these features are used in current productions for children. Coding categories for formal features include action, pace, visual events, and auditory features. Concludes that commercial producers stress formal features as much or more than content. (PD)
Descriptors: Animation, Cartoons, Children, Childrens Television
Television and Children's Gender Schemata.
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Calvert, Sandra L.; Huston, Aletha C. – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Points out that the world of television activates, cultivates, and alters the gender schemata that children bring to the viewing situation. Finds that viewing can also promote creation of new schemata or modification of existing ones. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Cognitive Structures
Children's Comprehension of Televised Formal Features with Masculine and Feminine Connotations.
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Huston, Aletha C. – Developmental Psychology, 1984
Children from grades one through six judged commercially produced advertisements, specially produced "pseudocommercials," and verbal descriptions as better suited to advertise a feminine or masculine sex-typed toy. Comprehension of sex-typed connotations was predicted by home television viewing patterns but not by general knowledge of sex…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Comprehension, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
A Matter of Form: Potentials for Young Viewers.
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Wright, John C.; Huston, Aletha C. – American Psychologist, 1983
Summarizes research findings on the structures, codes, and conventions of television as a communicative symbol, and on the effects of television on cognitive and social development. Suggests that television viewing can induce active cognitive processing, and that television can be a potent tool for teaching and communicating with young children.…
Descriptors: Attention, Childhood Interests, Children, Cognitive Processes
How Young Children Spend Their Time: Television and Other Activities.
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Huston, Aletha C.; Wright, John C.; Marquis, Janet; Green, Samuel B. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Examined television viewing over three years among two cohorts of 2- and 4-year olds. Found that viewing declined with age. With age, time in reading and educational activities increased on weekdays but declined on weekends, and sex differences in time-use patterns increased. Increased time in educational activities, social interaction, and video…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Behavior, Cohort Analysis, Context Effect
Early Childhood Television Viewing and Adolescent Behavior: The Recontact Study.
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Anderson, Daniel R.; Huston, Aletha C.; Schmitt, Kelly L.; Linebarger, Deborah L.; Wright, John C. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2001
Followed up on 570 adolescents studied as preschoolers. Found that preschoolers' viewing of educational television programs was associated with achieving higher grades, reading more books, placing more value on achievement, exhibiting greater creativity, and behaving less aggressively as adolescents more consistently for boys than girls. Found…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Aggression, Body Image