THE
TELEVISION HAS AN INFLUENCE ON THE EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOUR OF PREPUBERTAL
CHILDREN?
Renato Cocchi, neurologist and medical
psychologist..
Keywords: Exploration, behaviour, space, reduction,
television, habit, visual.
I am
reporting a curious phenomenon, first observed in my two sons, when they were
in prepubertal age, and then confirmed by friends and acquaintances, for their
children of similar age.
Sometimes
I asked one of them to go and take an object, not great, which it was on the
plan of the table of my office. When the object was not in the middle of the
table, the boy returned saying that there was not anything.
She/he
did not do any exploration on the whole plan of the table. It was as if,
besides the narrow central zone, does not exist any other space that could be
explored for the search.
In the
face of the visual demonstration that the object was there, even placed on a
side, I had the invariable answer: "I did not saw it."
I thought
that this behaviour of reduction of the space to explore should be creditable
to the habit of watching television, where the things happen only in a central space, as delimited from the screen.