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Video games can have positive, therapeutic effects on players of all ages, especially those with mental or emotional problems. Games provide a chance to tune out the stresses of everyday life and decompress. Giving your mind time to rest is critical for emotional and mental well-being. Relaxation reduces the risk of heart problems and stroke, boosts memory, buffers against depression, and helps decision making. It even has physical health benefits, by suppressing

Video games are generally seen as a waste of time and nothing good can come out of playing them. People usually associate video games with nerds and adults who stay in the basements of their parent’s house. With all these negative associations with video games, it is hard to see that video games can actually be helpful and beneficial to an individual’s mental and physical health.

Everybody in this country plays video games almost every day. It does not matter what the age is, even though they are not young and have free time they would play video games and enjoy themselves. People and society says that through video games children’s and also some adults become more aggressive and violent. Video games are contributing the act of violence all over the world and they are thinking to stop video games for their benefit. The media makes false assumptions. They are not giving details of video games and missing the benefits of the video games. According to medical daily new research indicates that certain video games actually boost the brain power and improve strategic thinking. Unfortunately, our parents and society does not approve the use of video games and it has been decried by many parents and it creates destructive garbage. It also improves the cognitive flexibility which is the mental faculty of creative and lateral thinking. According to Ericson, “Our paper shows that cognitive flexibility, a cornerstone of human intelligence, is not a static trait can be trained and improved using fun learning tools alike gaming”.(Medical Daily) This is the necessary part of our human brain and it can be achieved by video games and other fun learning activities. There are many advantages just like these from playing video games. They should also look at the benefits and not just focus on the disadvantages. It also helps from

Video games are “a waste of time” they don 't actually improve anything, they are just entertainment. However there is drastic evidence to show that couldn’t be further from the truth. They actually have a huge mental benefit that can enhance memory, better hand to eye coordination and enhanced reflexes along with other things aswell. Showing that they are indeed not just a time killer and waster but are hugely benefiting the minds of the people that play them. The first point I would like to bring up is enhanced memory, a study suggests that young children can benefit from the memory aspects of video games. Several children had multiple sessions of several video games with increases challenge and it had been noted that they did show signs of progress in the difficulty but more importantly an increase in a strong memory showing that the two indeed have a connection. Secondly hand to eye coordination, another study was conducted and yet again the gamer who repeatedly played games was faster, sharper and overall better than the non-gamer. The other main point is reflexes which sort of ties in with the other points but deserves another mention, research indicates that fast-paced gameplay along the lines of Call of Duty and other various games, does in fact increase reflexes.

A Michigan State University study found that boys and girls who play video games tend to be more creative. A study of 500 twelve year olds found that the more kids played video games the more creative they were when it came to drawing and writing stories. About 72 percent of U.S. households play video games and this is the first study linking video games to creativity. This study was extremely important because it could give developers a desire to design games that maximize the development of creativity in their games so it can transfer to the gamer in an optimum way. With the ever growing pace which video games are transforming the gap should lessen between video games and technology. Eventually, video games should be used for positive as an education resource, rather than just a time waster. Another study showed that those who played video games spent less time reading and doing homework, but didn’t spend less time with their parents and friends. This study was done in order to assess the ways video games are related to academic and social outcomes (Jackson 2011).

Although that I hear from my doctor and others that too much video games playing is not good for me, I am not sure that I would totality agree to it. So, can playing one or more video games quite a bit teach me life skills? From my reading of Gerald Graff’s Essay, I feel that I can use academic skills that I have learned to skillfully play in all sorts of games. My innate knowledge of how to play video games can be considered hidden intellectualism because it allows me to use intellectual skills such as perspective, thinking critically, and creativity. My focus on this paper will be about developing several types of life skills such as strategizing, multitasking, teamwork, and patience that comes from playing video games from different genres.

This has been a problem throughout years that children shouldn’t play too much video games because they would get influence to things that they shouldn’t be into. But this would help the children. The article “Your Brain on Video Games” written by Steven Johnson, it discusses different types of video games and there would be a possibility that it would help us. He discusses how his favorite game The Sims and it would help you created a life the way you wanted it to be like creating a family, take care of them, and many more. He would call this some quick reflexes and this would be a non-stop balancing act. By playing this, you would learn new

In Jonathan Craton’s article “The Effect of Videogames on Student Achievement” he shows the positive and negative effects video games have on present day students. He goes into detail on the benefits and shortfalls that video games could have on education and social skills of college students. Craton also mentions the psychological effects noted from video games including games with increased amounts of violence. Despite the negative effects Craton mentions in his article, video games should be used to assist in the learning process in classrooms around the world.

One of the benefits of gaming is the improvement of memory stated in the article Lumosity: Have Fun, Get Cerebral “The games are designed by neuroscientists, in collaboration with multiple universities, to train memory, attention and more”. Through playing Lumosity the user improves their memory, not only does it improve memory it also increases the user’s attention. In addition, gaming can influence the user to stop addictions. This is shown through the Article Play your way to a healthier liver “Available in English and Spanish, the game is a multimedia trivia quiz that features short videos, links to podcasts and infographics on liver disease and how to avoid it”. The game is designed specifically for users with liver disease and, to help the user understand the dangers of the disease, they use quizzes, short videos, and podcast to educate the user on how to prevent it. Another of the many benefits that gaming offers is the improvement of important skills. Gaming Technologies for Learning states “Digital games require, and therefore support, the development of a range of skills - this can include skills such as decision-making, problem-solving or reflection, as well as softer skills such as effective communication and team working” By playing digital games it allows the user to improve skills used throughout daily life, the development of these skills may allow users to become a better person. There are countless amounts of benefits that gaming has to offer but, these benefits couldn’t have happened without the evolution of

A man tells us his IQ raised tremendously only after playing many video games. This man was indeed smarted and more self aware of his surrounding just because of the video games. He had many friends and even made money for playing those games. His whole career depended on this. Without it his life may just fall apart. With these facts we know that videogames can help individual life with little to no bad consequences. This also tells us that video games may help people calm themselves and use this technology as a source of violence online instead of violence in the real world.

There are also many studies that show how video games increase peripheral perception, processing speed, and memory (Bavelier, Green, Han, Renshaw,  Merzenich, & Gentile, 2011). Also, depending on the type of video game a particular person is playing, it can be used as an effective training scenario(Bavelier, Green, Han, Renshaw,  Merzenich, & Gentile, 2011). The idea here is that video games can be used as a productive tool for people of all ages, professions, and lifestyles, if they are utilized correctly (Bavelier, Green, Han, Renshaw,  Merzenich, & Gentile, 2011). An issue that may come up is trying to find the happy area in the middle of the people who don’t use games at all and the ones that are using them excessively and becoming

When playing video games, the coordination and concentration can physically, socially, and mentally benefit the user. Research today shows that certain video games can reduce fat and therefore promote weight loss. Other sources state that doctors have instructed parents to let their children play video games to help control focus. It is found that video games can improve hand eye

military and future doctors. Playing games does not have a negative effects cause they help boost your brain power. Critics try and say games are all violent, but some games have trivia and puzzles that give you a hard time and make you use your brain to figure it out.

The significance of video games can be seen between the societies of Call of Duty and Tetris, Call of Duty can be fundamental to learning skills by improving hand eye coordination, attention and focusing skills, and problem solving skills. More than 1.2 billion people play video games everyday having a global effect.

Video games challenge the player and expand his ability to react fast with very little lag time. With years of practice the player becomes quicker and more accurate with the movements. Thus hand