... two is overwhelming. Research into the time that an average household spends watching television has been steadily increasing since1965 (Burger 1982;Liebert & Sprafkin 1988) though this is thought not an entirely reliable source of information since it was determined from pen and paper surveys concerning viewing habits. A study by Anderson et al which involved monitoring households with camera recording equipment determined that children spend an average of 9.14 hours per week watching television and adults an average of 7.56 hours per week. Cumberbatch (1987) found that violence was more likely to occur in programmes screened after 9pm, though violence is often present in children's cartoons it's a debatable issue as to whether children view this as being realistic or not. Albert Bandura's social leaning theory (1976) believed that aggressive tendancies were not inherited but were learned through a process called behaviour modelling. Bandura argued that individuals,especially children, learn aggressive responses from ...

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