Spongebob Research Paper

Shows such as Spongebob Squarepants don’t generate attention disorders like ADHD, but they do contribute to shorter attention spans. This is especially unhealthy for younger people. Watching cartoons makes it harder to employ executive function in the brain, the process used to complete tasks. Viewing TV programming with a still developing brain is hurtful for the younger generations. Fast-paced programs over-stimulate young kids’ brains. Therefore, Spongebob is damaging to children.

First of all, television cannot cause a brain disorder. No studies shown that children with ADHD watch any more television than normal children do. “heredity explains between 55 percent and 97 percent of the range of hyperactive and impulsive behavior seen in children, with an average of 80 percent. Environmental factors - such as diet, toxins like lead, or complications during pregnancy and birth - explained only between 1 percent and 10 percent”(ADHD and children's television viewing). Attention disorders come from genetics, not the environment. There has been no increase in ADHD despite the rise in watching TV. There has only been ”an increase in the recognition of the

The show spongebob, specifically, “switches scenes on average every 11 seconds” (Watching SpongeBob Squarepants Makes Preschoolers Slower Thinkers, Study Finds) A study was conducted, testing the effects of children aged 4. The study divided the four year olds into three activity groups; they were playing with crayons, watching a slow paced cartoon like caillou, or a fast one like SpongeBob SquarePants. The SpongeBob kids tested the lowest in ability to focus and problem solving. Nickelodeon questioned the validity of the findings, criticizing the small size of the control group and pointing to the fact that SpongeBob is targeted at children aged six to eleven, not four. What older children may be able to handle, younger children