[8.5/10] Write an essay (250 words) about the following topic: "How do movies and television
influence people’s behaviors?" Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
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Cognitive decline - bad scene => follow
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Reduce concentration ability => Advertisement during programs
In the golden age of television, the best of TV can be enriching and enlightening, however,
researchers suggest that we should be cautious about what we give up for the sake of
entertainment on grounds of its tremendously negative influences on people’s behaviors,
namely reducing cognitive ability and eroding our memory power.
Firstly, televisions lead to viewers’ cognitive decline, resulting in misbehaviours especially in
kids and adolescents. In this purely open society, obviously nobody can control all content and
information that appears on the Internet. Consequently, violent and terrorizing scenes – as part
of the social network – are easily approached and accessed. This has given rise to the
fundamental problem of viewers regularly paying heed to brutal and fierce content, which elicits
aggressive actions in the majority of teenagers these days on grounds that these impressionable
ones have a tendency to make a mental note and pattern themselves after what they see and
hear without proper consideration as well as sufficient reflections.
Secondly, given the associations with cognitive decline, television and movie watching is
specifically a risk factor for the onset of declined focusing ability. It is found that watching more
than two hours per day was associated with a decline in memory of words and information, or
in other words, TV watching is a direct assault on our power to concentrate. It is common
knowledge that no television programme is without an advertisement break. As soon as your
brain begins to focus on the content presented in the programme, the advertisement comes out
as an interruption to break your concentration line. Prolonged exposure to this type of
interrupting can severely exert influence on your focusing power. The aftermath definitely
won’t be clear and apparent overnight but following a long time of progressive exposure, the
indication will gradually become more evident and noticeable for people.
In brief, I still stick to my gun that movies and televisions negatively exert influences on human’s
behavioral patterns. Furthermore, people ought to keep within bounds in an attempt to broaden
the range of knowledge on top of steering clear of dismissive influences from movies and TVs.