...Video Games Effect on Behavior With games like Assassin’s Creed 3 and Halo 4 recently released, video game sales have been sky-rocketing. Children, teenagers, and adults alike have all been rushing to Game Stop to have the chance to slash victims with a hidden blade or shoot down enemies with AK-47s. This type of game rewards murders. In fact, the National Television Violence Study (1996) found that about 73 percent of violent video games reward violence as an acceptable way to handle conflict (Norcia). This is true for a variety of games ranging from Poke’mon to Mortal Kombat. Due to consumer’s demand, most of the video games sold are violent. Gamers learn to identify with the characters they are controlling. “This identification with characters in video games increases a player's ability to learn and retain aggressive thoughts and behaviors they see portrayed in violent games (Norcia).” Aggression is defined as an action It can be a verbal attack--insults, threats, sarcasm, or attributing nasty motives to them--or a physical punishment or restriction. Direct behavioral signs include being overly critical, fault finding, name-calling, accusing someone of having immoral or despicable traits or motives, nagging, whining, sarcasm, prejudice, and/or flashes of temper (Shin). Research on the subject has suggested that violent video games cause aggressive thoughts and actions. Assassin’s Creed 3, mentioned in the paragraph above, is an example of a classic violent video game...
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...Violent Games: Single Benefit-Double Harm By Dan Nguyen Rhetoric Research Prof. Melody Heide 15 April 2013 One day, I visited a far relative; and when I came into the house, I was startled by the shouts of her kids, “Kill him,” “Die,” “Screw you!” Those kids were playing video games, and they were screaming bad words to each other’s face. I looked up to the screen and saw an extremely gory image of a violent game. I could tell the excitement on the kids’ faces, and when I greeted them, they did not even reply to me. That incident made me think about all the articles of how violent games affect children. Whereas school violence becomes more and more serious, violent games without close control from the government and families is one of the main reasons. Just because of a small contradiction, students can go straight to a fight, acting like some gangsters, and in the worst case, deathly accidents happen. Do violent games lead to violent behaviors? Do they have bad effects on children and society? Many people nowadays would reject those questions and provide various reasons to prove that violent games are good in general. If we take a look on both sides of the problem, video games are great products of entertainment technology that can bring some good effects, but in most of the cases, the bad effects infringe the good effects, especially for violent games, and that’s why we should limit children playing those by banning violent games for all minors in all states. ...
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...1010 9:00 10/25/2014 Negative Effects of Video Gaming On Young Adults Video games have been around for over forty years helping to keep people entertained, and in the last decade have been a substantial evolution in technology. As these games have grown so have their benefits but their downfalls have developed as well. With their almost lifelike representation of the world, intricate settings and storylines, and wide spread social gaming scenes, the video game world has created a new venue for people to interact and compete. Games are a wonderful addition to the technological era, but they have negative effects on the brain, develop addictive personality traits and promote antisocial behavior. A study shows that our brains respond very well to changes in the environment. Consequently, when a player plays in any game, our brains make it real. Moreover, video games can help players to pay attention to details, to think and react quickly and to improve their academic performance. When playing an action game, our brains need more attention to successfully complete tasks or events in the game; this actually builds visual skills and spatial distribution. Video games have adopted modern and efficient techniques that require both the body and the brain; this action makes us more dynamic, and it can improve our static balance in games such as “Dance Dance Revolution” and “In the Groove” “In today’s era, games have become so advance that the visual game play is almost realistic, and...
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...Hiatt English 1010 13 October 2014 The Brain on Video Games Are video games just for entertainment purposes? Although many believe that video games are for passing the time and entertainment. Many people I’ve ask said they “corrupt the brain, ruins the attention span and worsen the social skills” In the media we see headlines saying how video games are damaging our brains, but are they really damaging anything? A negative always has to have a positive. I am going to show you that gaming has benefits for your brain. Not only is it entertaining, it also has benefits for the brain During my middle school years, I played a lot of Grand Theft Auto (GTA). While playing GTA I learn there was more to it than committing crimes and making my avatar number one. While playing you need to memorize several game patterns such as the weapon specification and also many maps. The players are also put to unraveling a complicated puzzle that requires you to process enormous amounts of data. There are resources inside the game, those resources are key to survival; players have to constantly manage these in the most effective manner. Rather than rotting my brain I was doing the opposite. With playing GTA I have improved my memory, my problem solving and my resource management. I’ve also improved my hand-eye coordination, fine motor and spatial skills. GTA isn’t the only game that I found out was helpful, but it was the most surprising to me since it was a game that most people blamed for their own...
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...complex games requiring more than just one controller and one button but it all started when Atari came up with its first gaming console, including a very simple game of tennis. These days playing videogames comes as a normal thing to modern children, just like walking and talking. There are even videos of babies playing with our phones, Ipads and tablets. If you are parent in this era chances are you have a child who has played, is playing, or will be playing videogames. Parents usually refer to videogames as time-wasters or worse. Even some education experts think that these games can corrupt the brain. The media can also easily blame violent video games as the reason why some young people become violent. But three decades of research have failed to produce agreement among scientists, instead showing that...
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...will talking to you about age restrictions in violent video games, and why they should be raised. After students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire in their Colorado high school in 1999 -- shooting 20 people and killing 13 -- Linda Sanders filed a lawsuit. Her husband was a teacher at Columbine and among the dead. The media revealed that Harris and Klebold played a lot of violent video games, including "Wolfenstein 3D," "Doom," and "Mortal Kombat." Linda Sanders named multiple video game publishers, including Sony and Nintendo, in the suit as well as Time Warner and Palm Pictures since the shooters had apparently watched "The Basketball Diaries," in which a character uses a shotgun to kill students at his high school. In today's ultra-violent media world, it appears there's plenty of blame to go around. But is it legitimate? As of 2001, roughly 79 percent of America's youth played video games, many of them for at least eight hours a week Beyond the obvious issues of concern, like "what happened to riding bikes around the neighborhood," there are bigger questions. Many people wonder how this type of exposure to violence as an adolescent effects social behavior. The rise in dramatically violent shootings by teenagers, many of whom apparently play violent video games, is helping the argument that video game violence translates into real-world situations. But other people aren't convinced and insist that video games are a scapegoat for a shocking social trend that has people...
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...Name Professor Course Name Date Research Paper Outline Video Games Promote Violent Behaviour in Boys 1) Introduction a. Thesis: Video games promote violent behavior in boys b. Prevalence of violence attributed to video games c. Proportion of boys who are chronic video gamers 2) What is known about violence and video games d. Relationship between video games and aggression e. How video games affect the brain f. How video games have contributed to school shootings g. Other moral concerns concerning video games that promote violence 3) What is not known about video games and violence 4) How to address the problem h. Minor's access to the video games/content i. Other approaches to address the problem 5) Conclusion Video Games Promote Aggressive Behavior in Boys Video games have become an acceptable alternative of leisure, especially with the boys. The video gaming industry has been defined by robust growth over the last decade to a point it has now become an acceptable norm in the society. It is purported to be one of the major gross earner industry racking about 87 billion in 2012 (Robinson 414). Major players within the industry release numerous graphic video games into the market to garner a large customer niche. With advances in technology so does the content in most games become more realistic. This trend worries most social players ranging from parents, teachers, legislators...
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...Children, Wired: For Better and for Worse Daphne Bavelier,1,* C. Shawn Green,2 and Matthew W.G. Dye3 of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 3Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA *Correspondence: daphne@bcs.rochester.edu DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.035 2Department 1Department Children encounter technology constantly at home and in school. Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children’s development. The term ‘‘technology’’ subsumes a large variety of somewhat independent items, and it is no surprise that current research indicates causes for both optimism and concern depending upon the content of the technology, the context in which the technology immerses the user, and the user’s developmental stage. Furthermore, because the field is still in its infancy, results can be surprising: video games designed to be reasonably mindless result in widespread enhancements of various abilities, acting, we will argue, as exemplary learning tools. Counterintuitive outcomes like these, besides being practically relevant, challenge and eventually lead to refinement of theories concerning fundamental principles of brain plasticity and learning. Introduction It is Monday morning at 7:58 a.m. when John enters the building...
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...The Influence of Violent Media on Teen Violence Back to over two thousand years ago, Socrates once wrote: “Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and love to chatter in place of exercise.” Truly teenage rebellion has been around for a long time. Teenage is one of the most dynamic period in our life. People change the most while they are teens, both physically and emotionally. Unlike adults, teenagers may not be aware the consequence of their rebellious acts. When it comes to extreme act of rebellion it becomes violence. Teen violence comes in many forms and vary degrees. For example, verbal abuse, bully, physical fight, gang violence, and assault with or without weapons are the most common violent behavior among teenagers. Teen violence is a growing concern in our society. People often hear teenagers bullying, teenagers involved in violent crimes on the news. According to Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, about 20% of high school students report being bullied on school property in the U.S. in 2009 (8). One third of students had been in a physical fight in the last twelve months (6). For many teenagers, violence is a way to release anger and express freedom. All parents want their teens away from violent behavior. Before we can find solutions for the youths, we need to figure out why is teen violence happening? What makes teenagers turn to violence? There’re always have different and more than one reason that...
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...Education Game The issue with education is not education it’s self but the way the education is being taught. In today’s society most households have a television in a majority of the rooms, internet, computers, Smart cell phone, and video games, have these gadgets be implemented into the process of educating students instead of starting a war between technology and education. Sun-Tzu once said “The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.” With this quote I see education as being the opponent to the technology that is taking the attention of children from education. Bring in the technology and use it to teach, Education should surrender the old ways of teaching and bring in a new way with technology being an ally. There are people out there that are against this idea of the students playing games in class because video games are harmful to the brain. I am going to tackle that one right here and now with saying that in my research I have found both positive and negative things about the affects video games have on the brain and the physical body. According to Patricia Wolfe in her book brain matters 2nd edition she states “well-designed educational Video Games can be natural teachers by focusing on critical skills, providing immediate feedback and adapting to the individual learners, and providing opportunities to practice to the point of mastery.” (Wolfe 103) in his book “The...
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...The Positive and Negative effects of Video Games I. Video games have both positive and negative effect on the human brain. a. Positive Influence b. Negative Influence. c. Recommended for Video Games II. Positive Influence. "Video games change your brain," according to University of Wisconsin psychologist C. Shawn Green. a. It can increase problem solving and logic. 1. Accuracy- Action games, according to a study by the University of Rochester, train the brains of players to make faster decisions without losing accuracy. In today’s world, it is important to move quickly without sacrificing accuracy. 2. Memory, 3. Quick thinking a. Good bonding activity b. Improve concentration b. Negative Influences c. Violence d. Bad effects on some children’s health e. Socially isolated Negative Impact in school. A study by Argosy University's Minnesota School on Professional Psychology found that video game addicts argue a lot with their teachers, fight a lot with their friends, and score lower grades than others who play video games less often. c. Recommended for Video games. f. Pick games that require the player to come up with strategies, and make decisions in a game g. Decide what is acceptable in your home and if you think violent games are not acceptable, explain to your kid the reason why it might be bad for him. h. According to Los Angeles-based...
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...We have all played video games at least a few times in our life and moms have always said, “Those video games will rot your brain out,” but will they actually “rot” the brain? Studies are showing that moms could be wrong when she says “video games will rot your brain out,” and they could actually be beneficial to the brain. But what about violent video games? Surely they cannot be good for you, right? Even violent video games can help develop some areas of the brain (Jaeger), though they may not be the most optimal type of game to be playing if you want to increase your brain as much as you can, but they still help. Video games have both positive and negative effects on the human body. Video games have many benefits on the brain, including better problem solving, more logic, increased hand-eye coordination, improved fine motor skills and more (“The Positive and Negative”). This is just a small chunk of what video games can help the human brain to expand. The human brain is a very complex organ, in fact, it is the most complex organ in the body. The brain has the ability to change, so every time it learns new information then it grows (Jenkins), so when humans play video games the brain can grow in many areas like visual-spatial capacity, visual activity, task sustaining, decision making,...
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...EFFECTS OF VIDEO GAMES ON STUDENTS Effects of Computer Games on Students Students these days are spending more of their free time playing computer games. There are positive and negative effects associated with playing video games. Set a regular routine for your child so he knows when it is time to do homework and when to play games. Some students get carried away with playing their computer games for excessive amounts of time. Your child’s health might be affected negatively if he plays computer games persistently. His eye sight might get worse because he is constantly staring at the computer. Since your child sits in one position while playing computer games, he may be at risk of gaining extra weight due to lack of daily exercise. Encourage your child to play outside or get other physical fitness so she plays computer games for a limited amount of time. If students are spending too much time playing computer games, they may not be getting enough social interaction at home. Students should have proper communication skills so they can interact with teachers and classmates while at school. Good social skills will help your kid feel healthy and happy at school -- and can possibly boost his interest in school work. Limit the time your child spends on computer games. Be interactive; play board games that can boost your child’s social skills. According to All Academic Research, playing computer games may not be all that bad for your children. Peng Wei states that educational...
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...Think Again “Video games are bad for you? Thats what they said about rock n' roll.” In the early 1970's video game consoles moved from the arcade rooms to the average home, and hasn't looked back since.The visual gaming world has been expanding immensely for the past four decades and has become the worlds most prominent source of entertainment. With this expansion there are now professional gaming teams that compete in tournaments around the world playing for prizes and titles. Not only do these games require good hand eye coordination but they focus more on the mind. Strategy games, first person shooters, and adventure games are some of the most popular genres that are played by teens and young adults. With this growth of gaming it is assumed that these games will hinder a children's ability to learn in school and can affect a persons mental health negatively. People don't view these games as having any positive effects, and are viewed as a negative form of entertainment. The reality of this subject is that video games can supply many benefits towards the human brain, give us new ways of reacting to problems, and can expand a child's potential in their education. Since teens and young adults spend a good amount of time interacting with these games through their everyday schedule it has been given a negative title by most parents. Parents fear for their child's education and doubt that video games actually have any benefits towards the brain. These games contain a lot of...
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...In recent decades there has been a growing concern among researchers, parents, and the public in general that violent interactive media may incite violence in teens and young adults. Particularly, it has been suggested that violent video games may condition a person to commit atrocities. It's not unreasonable to suspect a correlation between the exposure to violent media and the eventual enactment of violent crime; however, much consideration of variables such as mental illness, physical and mental abuse, and any other variables that would cause an individual to have a predisposition to violence must be done if any position or perspective is to be gained on the issue. A case that has been the center of much controversy regarding video games...
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