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The year is 2016. Despite a shining sun and a cool breeze, the only sound outside is the birds’ chirping. Mothers are inside, desperately trying to balance family life, work, and household chores. Maybe they have not had time to glance outside and see the natural beauty of the world or maybe they are just too occupied to care. Their children sit on the floor of the living room, eyes glued to the television and surrounded by a variety of digital toys. This is not some special day. These children grew up surrounded by the vast array of technology. It is entertainment and knowledge right at their fingertips. What our society fails to accept though, is that this constant access to technology is hurting our children. It blurs the line between The experiment was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961. He first brought children into a laboratory and showed them adults performing violent acts on the doll. As his control group, some children were shown adults who did not perform violent acts. Throughout the study, depending on what group they were in, some children watched live actors, some watched videos where the actor was clearly human, and then the last group saw cartoonish videos where the actor was wearing a cat costume. After viewing the actor perform either violent or non-violent acts, the children was brought into a room with toys they could not play with and then sent to a room where Bobo was. The room with Bobo included “aggressive” and “non-aggressive” toys. Examples of the aggressive toys include dart guns and pounding boards. Bandura’s research team counted the number of aggressive activities performed by each child. The results showed that no matter which way they were shown aggressive acts, whether on video or in person, those children were more likely to act aggressively towards Bobo. The children’s actions did not only copy those of the actor they previously saw, but many incorporated usage of the aggressive toys into their

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