Student Research Symposium Program Portal: Submission #229

Abstract This study examines how cartoons impact children's development and identity formation. I wanted to focus specifically on diverse cartoons, meaning researching the effect of different genre categories and not grouping all cartoons into a single category. The categories are educational, moral/value- based, action, comedy, fantasy, emotional/social learning, problem-solving, and friendship cartoons. My research focuses on finding out the relationship between the cartoons and how they affect children's aspects in development, such as attention, behavior, moral understanding, thinking/learning skills, creativity, and emotional development. In order to find out the effects of the cartoons, I am doing an experiment in kindergarten class, where I observe the difference in children's behavior and actions between the ones that watched a cartoon and the ones that did not.