Question

Heavy television viewers are more likely to have beliefs that reflect the worldview portrayed by television, which is not equivalent to reality. In television entertainment programming, 77% of major characters that commit crimes perpetrate acts of violence, compared to roughly 10% of actually reported crimes. This is an example of __________.

Answer 1

Answer: Cultivation theory

Explanation:

This theory states that the more people watch television the likely they are to view the world according to what they see on television or be influenced by it.

This impact the way they view the world around them and they begin to believe things that they see on television.

They start to associate these ideas with real social situations.

They will start to act even differently than the people in the same area who don't watch much television since they adopt these beliefs from what they watch on TV.

Television introduces unreal ideas about the world that people start to believe to be real because television seem to exaggerate things when they compared to what they real are.

The view people have about reality start to be distorted by these ideas that are portrayed in Television.

They will see the criminal activities portrayed in TV and start to believe that is the reality of the world we are living in.