Is Watching TV Makes You Smarter?
Today it’s unusual to go somewhere and there not to be a TV. TVs are everywhere, they are a part of life. Watching TV is often seen as not helping, just something teens watch and is considered a waste of time. I believe watching TV, and the shows on TV are often overlooked for the information they give to the people and that watching TV is better for teens than most think. Watching TV can be good for you. When watched in moderation, the shows provide us information we might have overlooked, they can actually make us smarter as they force us to pay close attention and make us use our minds to even the comedic shows provide a dark reality within their content, making it seem that watching TV can be good for us. TV shows, serious or comedic
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This is where it overlaps with Steven Johnson, the author of “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, idea that watching TV makes you smarter and gives people a learning opportunity. Johnson explains that Watching TV forces us to use our minds, we see what’s happening on the screen and our minds have to take in, process it, creating a different type of cognitive complexity. For example, the Fox network show “24”, known for its cliffhangers, and violence, hold many different threads that forces your brain to pay attention, make inferences, and tract social relationships (Watching TV Makes You Smarter). Shows like this force your brain to think more complexly, actually making you smarter. Johnson simply states, “You have to focus to follow the plot, and in focusing your exercising the parts of your brain that map social networks, that fill in missing information, that connect multiple narrative threads.” Moreover, TV shows are forcing your brain to work, making your brain smarter, exercising its ability to process and thing complexly. Furthermore, watching certain to show forces to use our minds to draw inferences, that when you watch TV intelligently, it’s possible to see messages within the shows content that otherwise would be considered unimportant. Johnson is simply saying that that complex TV shows force viewers to use their minds actively, it strengthens our minds and can make people
This is where it overlaps with Steven Johnson, the author of “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, idea that watching TV makes you smarter and gives people a learning opportunity. Johnson explains that Watching TV forces us to use our minds, we see what’s happening on the screen and our minds have to take in, process it, creating a different type of cognitive complexity. For example, the Fox network show “24”, known for its cliffhangers, and violence, hold many different threads that forces your brain to pay attention, make inferences, and tract social relationships (Watching TV Makes You Smarter). Shows like this force your brain to think more complexly, actually making you smarter. Johnson simply states, “You have to focus to follow the plot, and in focusing your exercising the parts of your brain that map social networks, that fill in missing information, that connect multiple narrative threads.” Moreover, TV shows are forcing your brain to work, making your brain smarter, exercising its ability to process and thing complexly. Furthermore, watching certain to show forces to use our minds to draw inferences, that when you watch TV intelligently, it’s possible to see messages within the shows content that otherwise would be considered unimportant. Johnson is simply saying that that complex TV shows force viewers to use their minds actively, it strengthens our minds and can make people