Advertising has had a powerful impact on today’s children. From songs, to logos,
to characters, advertisers keep in mind their audiences. Competition is the force which
causes advertisers to target children. Children are targeted through the catch phrases,
animated characters, and toys in these competitive advertisements.
The textbook used in class (Huffman, 2002) describes that “advertising has numerous”
methods to hook the individual into “buying their products and services.” The advertising
company surrounds a particular candidate such as a child and immediately sinks their teeth into
the child’s mind to manipulate the child into desiring their products. Through TV, cartoons and
magazine ads, child are hit by one subliminal message after another. They are shown how this
product will either improve their status by making them they envy of all their friends. Whether it
be a food, a particular catch phrase, a child can be the easiest for advertisers to prey on.
Many types of foods targeted towards children have a catch phrase associated
towards them. Commercials use these catch phrases to implant their product into the
children’s memory. One example, are the goldfish crackers. “I love the fishes ‘cause their
so delicious…” This is the theme to a well-known commercial, which advertises
Pepperidge Farm goldfish crackers. Children sing the catch phrase over and over
throughout the entirety of the commercial. By the time the commercial ends the line and
products are inevitably stuck in a child’s mind. The commercial says”…and my mom says
that’s okay,” which implies to children that their parents will allow them to eat this snack.
Another example of a product with an addicting catch phrase is Oscar Meyer bologna.
“My bologna has a first name its O-S-C-A-R…” Instead of this song selling the product
itself, its aim is to sell the brand. The Oscar Meyer Company has auditions for the next
Oscar Meyer child. Again, their goal is to sell their brand. The company also has another
product with another catchy song, Oscar Meyer hotdogs. “I wish I were an Oscar Meyer
wiener…” The stress of this phrase is also the brand. Oscar Meyer commercials use
children to sing these songs and like the gold fish commercial, the song has been
imprinted into a child’s memory by th...
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doing so without adult supervision. A lot of children watching TV are 8 or younger and they do
not fully comprehend the importance of the subliminal messages that the companies are sending
out by using their cartoons and catchy songs to hook the child into buying their products. I
believe that advertising is a modern example of brainwashing and that with no parental
supervision or no parental limits, our nation’s youth will be so caught up in the power of
advertising, that their youth and innocence will end much faster than the generation before.
Advertising is using the power of suggestion to sell a product. In the case of children, a
company’s advertisement hopes to suggest that their product is best. Many food companies target
children with the hopes that they can influence their parents choices when it comes to buying a
product. Animated characters, catch phrases, and toys are used to lure a child to the product.
WORKS CITED
Dittmann, Melissa. (2004, June 6). Protecting Children From Advertising. Monitor on
Psychology, 35, 1-4.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/protecting.html
Huffman, Karen. (2002). Psychology in Action. New York: Palomar College.
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...advertisements. For example Knorr explains a way to teach children the difference between a commercial and a television program (par. 10). This helps the children brain focus more on a TV program rather than in commercial ads. “Using Vaseline to make hamburgers look juicy” (Knorr par. 10). This is dirty trick ads use to make food look good, we as adults have to teach our children that most of the time ads are fake. Something you have to teach your children since first day is that they must know that the main job of an ad is sell a product (Knorr par. 10). It’s a fact that most of the time children buy products that they don’t even want or like just because they saw that product on a television ad.
Children between four and eight don’t recognize that ads are paid commercials intended to convince them into buying something. Children see about 6,000 advertis...
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