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Child Psychology

Johnson and Young (2002) gendered voices in children's advertising: results, conclusions and evaluation

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Recall questions on Johnson and Young's findings on verbs in girl-oriented adverts and on voice-overs and their delivery, their conclusion, and a strength and weaknesses of the analysis, causation and generalising to today.

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Besides analysing content rather than effects, what limits generalising from Johnson and Young's findings today?

Key term

What kinds of verbs characterised girl-oriented advertisements?

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What was found about the use of voice-overs?

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  1. 1

    What kinds of verbs characterised girl-oriented advertisements?

    Model answer

    Verbs of feeling, nurturing and limited action, such as loving, caring, playing and wishing, with far more attention to appearance and fantasy.

  2. 2

    What was found about the use of voice-overs?

    Model answer

    Male voice-overs dominated overall and were used in every boy-oriented advert, while girl-oriented adverts were the only category in which female voices were common.

  3. 3

    What differences were found in the way the voices were delivered?

    Model answer

    Boy-oriented adverts used loud, deep and forceful delivery, whereas girl-oriented adverts used softer, higher-pitched speech and singing.

  4. 4

    State the conclusion of Johnson and Young (2002).

    Model answer

    Children's television advertising uses systematically gendered language, so advertising works as an agent of socialisation that teaches children what behaviour is expected of their sex.

  5. 5

    Give one strength of Johnson and Young's method.

    Model answer

    The sample of adverts was large and spread across three years, which makes the patterns reliable and representative of the output of that period, and because no people took part there were no ethical problems of distress or deception.

  6. 6

    Give one weakness relating to the analysis.

    Model answer

    Sorting utterances into categories requires interpretation, so different researchers could classify the same word differently unless inter-rater reliability is checked.

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