Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
(University of the City Manila)
College of Liberal Arts

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“Study on How Video Games Enhance the Mental Skills of a high school student”

In partial fulfillment in
English Proficiency Instruction II

Submitted to:
Prof. Maria Antonette Lofamia
Submitted by:
Gregorio, Fernan Joseph
Panerio, Jose Mariel
Date submitted:
March 16, 2015

Chapter I
Introduction

For years video games have been criticized for making people more antisocial, overweight or depressed . But now researchers are finding that games can actually change us for the better and improve both our body and mind.
Games can help to develop physical skills. Pre-school children who played interactive games such as the ones available on Wii have been shown to have improved motor skills, for example they can kick, catch and throw a ball better that children who don’t play video games. A study of surgeons who do microsurgery in Boston found that those who played video games were twenty-seven percent faster and made thirty-seven percent fewer errors than those who didn’t. Vision is also improved, particularly telling the difference between shades of grey. This is useful for driving at night, piloting a plane or reading x-rays.
Games also benefit a variety of brain functions, including decision-making. People who play action-based games make decision twenty-five percent faster than others and are no less accurate, according to one study. It was also found that the best gamers can make choices and act on them up to six times a second, four times faster than most people. In another study by researchers from the University of Rochester in New York, experienced gamers were shown to be able to pay attention to more than six things