... puppies but they would have to stop playing the game that they were playing were you could win "a big prize". The kids who had watched "Lassie" spent on average 90 seconds with the puppies, however the others spent under 50 seconds. This shows they had imitated specific acts they had seen. One final pro social study is Baran 1979. Baran studied children between the ages of eight and ten years old. They watched an episode of "The Waltons" in which there was an emphasis on helping behaviour. It was discovered that these children, who had watched the Waltons, behaved in a more helpful way than other children who had not seen the programme. This could of course be down to characteristics of the children. However it does show that Television at least makes a short-term impression on influential children. The effects that media has on anti social behaviour has been discovered ...

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