Psychology

From this statement, it is clear that aggressive behaviour is not a result of watching aggressive television program. It just causes the children who watch to be a little bit more aggressive than the average children who are not exposed to aggressive television programs. A lot of researches have been carried out to determine the relationship between aggressive television programs and aggressive behaviour in children. Among all those researches, none has ever come up with conclusive evidence that these kinds of programs are the causes of aggressive behaviour. There have been three kinds of results presented concerning the topic of aggression and television. Some researchers have argued that it is true watching aggressive television programs leads to aggressive behaviour (Hitti, 2005).

Other researchers argue that media violence and aggression are connected, but there is no contributory association. This argument is that though the two are related, there may be another factor that causes them. There is yet another group that claims that there is no connection between them at all. The statement, children who watch many aggressive programs on television tend to be more aggressive than average is supported by the second argument. This is the idea that there is an effect in children from watching aggressive programs, but definitely not as a cause of the aggressive behaviour (Hitti, 2005).
   
Even those researchers, who have argued that there is a relationship between aggression and aggressive television programs do not reach a consensus on the effect of one on the other, with some suggesting that it might be the already aggressive people who seek aggressive programs. There is a category of researchers who argue that the connection is psychological. In this case, the connecting factor is rooted in the means through which people learn. This argument is supported by Huesmann. He claims that young people build up cognitive scripts that direct the way they behave by copying the acts of their champions. As they are exposed to media violence, they gain the understanding of internalising scripts that show aggression as the proper way of resolving issues (Coyne, 2007).

Therefore this cannot be taken to mean that it is the programs that cause aggression, although they might tend to increase it. This argument is also supported by psychologists who claim that aggressiveness is predisposed in people (Hitti, 2005).    

This category of researchers has argued that aggression is predisposed in a persons mind and feelings. This category emphasises on the means of media violence as a catalyst to this predisposed state. They believe that these kinds of people already have the desire to act and only use the media violence as a justification. Their acts are justified by the media imagery, where the hero and the bad character employ acts of violence to seek revenge, mostly without any form of punishment (Coyne, 2007). This point to the fact that the aggressive programs on the television are not the source of aggressive behaviour, but just motivators to predisposed state of mind. This is what makes the children who watch more aggressive than average (Hitti, 2005).    
  
There is another category of researchers that claim that it is the psychological influence of the violence that leads to aggression. Being exposed to violent image is associated with an increase in heart beats, increased rate of respiration and increased blood pressure. Some researchers believe that this stimulated fight or fight reaction is the one that causes people to act aggressively in reality (Coyne, 2007). This statement also reveals aggressive television programs as stimulators and not causative agents (Hitti, 2005).    
 
In conclusion, arguing that television aggression causes aggressive behaviour is baseless. However, this does not rule out the fact that there is a complex relationship between the two that even psychologists and researchers have not come to a consensus on (Hitti, 2005).