Mass media use and cognitive development

Pages: 520-522
Kiran Maheshwari (Department of Psychology, Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole Univeristy, Jaipur, Rajasthan)
Bhanwar Singh (Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan)

The present study was conducted with the aim to assess the cognitive development between TV and internet of primary school children. Jaipur city was purposively selected as locale of the study from the randomly selected Jaipur district. A sample of 320 children was using TV (16) and internet (160) from primary school. Cognitive development of student was measured of cognitive capabilities test by Dr. Vasundhara Padmaangbhan and were used of data collection mean SD ant t test were competed to estimate the cognitive development of the children through the standardize test of cognitive development. The findings portrayed that the number of children accessing the interest as will as the amount of time online are steadily increasing. The most common online activities playing video games, assessing web sites and communicating via chat rooms, email and instant messaging. Thus the cognitive development of internet use are more complex than those associated with television use.