Your coworker has an 8-year-old son and knows you have a background in child development. She asks you about media consumption at this age. What do you tell her?
a. If children only occasionally watch television, and focus on pro-social shows, television could even have positive effects.
b. Exposure to violent media in middle childhood has not been substantially linked to later delinquency.
c. Researchers have found negative effects of both educational and violent television programming on children.
d. Children's programming has violence, but at least it has less violence than adult programming.
Answer: A
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