Heta Patel Researchers at Wisconsin's Marquette University found that watching comedy clips actually improves memory. The essay that “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson argues that many shows on TV that our population claims to be bad are actually healthy for our brains to watch. He explains how the right shows on TV, if watched, will increase your brain activity and will make you think deeper. He considers “good TV” to be any shows that requires one to engage into action. Johnson believes that although there is a bad side to watching TV, there is also a good side that makes you cognitively intelligent. The very famous TV show, Big Bang Theory, supports one aspect and expands on another aspect of Johnson’s argument in “Watching
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Is that okay?” And Penny answers him by asking him that “Well would you consider mounts of credit card debt kind of a big deal financially?” The viewer would need to think about Penny’s question and analyze it to figure about whether or not she answered yes or not to Raj’s question. Johnson argues that same thing in his essay, that “televised narratives” place “cognitive demands” on “their viewers” (280). We have to just assume that we are smart enough to comprehend the sentences that the characters on-screen are saying. Therefore, watching TV strengthens the viewer’s thinking …show more content…
In the episode “The Hood-Up Reverberation” of Big Bang Theory, Penny becomes a pharmaceutical salesperson and is practicing it on Emily, Raj’s girlfriend. If you are watching this part of the show, you would certainly need to know what a pharmaceutical salesperson is in order to understand everything that the characters are talking about in that part of the episode. Also, Sheldon mentions research that was done on different things in the recent years. For instance, he states how “Recent study out of Oxford University showed that when someone takes on a new romantic partner, that person loses one or two close friends.” One would more likely get to learn these kinds of things about what is going on around the world on TV shows like these. It is very unlikely that you would get to randomly hear this from someone on a regular basis. Therefore, this idea expands on Johnson’s reasoning that watching tv makes you
Is that okay?” And Penny answers him by asking him that “Well would you consider mounts of credit card debt kind of a big deal financially?” The viewer would need to think about Penny’s question and analyze it to figure about whether or not she answered yes or not to Raj’s question. Johnson argues that same thing in his essay, that “televised narratives” place “cognitive demands” on “their viewers” (280). We have to just assume that we are smart enough to comprehend the sentences that the characters on-screen are saying. Therefore, watching TV strengthens the viewer’s thinking …show more content…
In the episode “The Hood-Up Reverberation” of Big Bang Theory, Penny becomes a pharmaceutical salesperson and is practicing it on Emily, Raj’s girlfriend. If you are watching this part of the show, you would certainly need to know what a pharmaceutical salesperson is in order to understand everything that the characters are talking about in that part of the episode. Also, Sheldon mentions research that was done on different things in the recent years. For instance, he states how “Recent study out of Oxford University showed that when someone takes on a new romantic partner, that person loses one or two close friends.” One would more likely get to learn these kinds of things about what is going on around the world on TV shows like these. It is very unlikely that you would get to randomly hear this from someone on a regular basis. Therefore, this idea expands on Johnson’s reasoning that watching tv makes you