Video Games Affecting People

“In 1972, the Surgeon General issued the following warning on violent TV programs: “It is clear to me that the causal relationship between televised violence and antisocial behavior is sufficient to warrant appropriate and immediate remedial action. … There comes a time when the data are sufficient to justify action. That time has come.”” (Steinfeld, 1972). In the decades since hundreds of studies have been done on the effects of violent media exposure and violence. 1972 was an age of censored television violence, and violence on television was still seen as detrimental too many people. Here now in 2014 with television shows seemingly being uncensored with the amount of violence shown and the language used,

Video games are likely to encourage aggressiveness in teenagers. They may lose their sense and become violent when very much addicted to these games. In particular, those kids who love first-person shooter style video games are at more risk of becoming highly aggressive. Their thoughts might also turn hostile.

Today in our world, video games have been a massive impact and phenomenon on entertainment industry. People from different ages playing video games from different types of consuls and games, and the sales from this industry is growing. What is makes different from video games than another entertainment industry is video games encourage people in different levels to have more attention and focus more emotionally and physically on the screen. There are different games that are made to appeal the gamers and have their own style and graphic to attract different stages of audience. More, video games it all started beginning from Atari console, which included a very simple games such as Mario and chees and simple controller. Now, we have a different types of consoles such as PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and others available consoles in the market with variety of games. Also, with a huge improve of graphics in the games that led the gamer to involve and attract more to the games. With the huge increase amount of players these days, the controversy on wither video games effect are positive or negative. Plying video games have many different effects both negative and positive. Some of these effects include increase of the mental ability and reaction of the gamer, a falling of interest of other activities such as study and sports; and a massive negative effect of including changing behavior and violence.

Video games have some adverse effects, but they are also valuable learning tools. Research about the role of video games as instruments of higher education is inadequate. The data is also limited by the lack of long-term studies and inconsistent findings. Anyone that has not participated in the activity of playing video games may look down on those that do, because it is not seen generally as a productive use of one’s own time. If playing video games were to be compared to other activities that are more obvious with the meaning such as exercising to stay in shape, having a job to gain wealth or going to school to gain further education. However, this way of thinking isn’t completely wrong regarding an alternative to what video games

Video games are a enormous part in the world today. “More than 150 million people in the United States play video games regularly or for at least three hours per week. The number of sales has increased and in 2016, 24.5 billion games were sold, up from 23.2 billion in 2015.” “This Type of Video Game May Actually Harm Your Brain.” written by Mahita Gajanan is my positive article and “How Video Games Affect the Brain.” written by Hannah Nichols is my negative article. In this essay I am going to talk about video games and their impact on the brain (Nichols).

Parents have always claimed that video games corrupt a child’s well-being, but many of them don 't know what video games are actually doing to our minds and body. In fact, video games affect several different aspects of our lives, including our social lives, physical health, and behavior tendencies. With video games becoming an active member in almost everyone 's daily life, a more intrusive study is required, detailing the precise effects and what exactly their implications could be for this up-and-coming generation.

Side effects of video games number just about as many types of video games that people play. In Lisa Weber’s article “Positive Effects of Video Games on Children,” she states several benefits that children obtain when they play video games. Some of these advantages include the areas of social development, education, and an emotional outlet. As a result, Lisa clearly displays her stance on the positive side of the opinions of video games. However, electronic gaming contains a voluminous amount of pernicious effects. When young adults and children partake in video games, they come across numerous experiences that could have a negative influence on their lives.

Most people think that video games are harmful and waste of time. As a result, the main question of the research is how video games can influence on children and many

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.

The theorists note cognitive benefits with using video games. These vary from perceptional and spatial to attention and the increased ability for the subject to filter increasing amounts of information (Gentile, 2011). The cognitive processing can be increased. There is indication that academic outcomes are improved. There is growing direct evidence that intensive use of video games results in significant generalized improvements in cognitive

Today, many tend to believe that videogames have major negative effects on the brain and a person’s well being. People and scientists believe that videogames can be addictive after a while, they can make children antisocial, and they negatively influence young children and teens. Although many like to believe that videogames are more harmful than helpful, there are actually more positives than negatives. With video games, kids learn quick thinking, multitasking, problem solving, logic, and much more. In fact, some schools have adopted the idea of offering game design in the library as a way to help enhance children and teens thinking. These are just a few of the many traits that kids will need later on in life.

In the first speech titled:"Video Games Enhance the Lives of Youths",it speaks about how video games can actually be helpful to young kids, because it enhances their attentive skills and protects them from the real world,and it also provides them stress relief, because they are only focused on the fantasy of the game and not the real world.

Since the 1950s, the effects of videogames have been debated on whether it is harmful to kids.(Carey) During the years, various videogames have developed more gruesome content and have been blamed for crimes such as school shootings. But in recent searches people have found that studies connecting videogames and violence are frequently flawed. Additionally, people have stated that it influences kids into immoral behaviors but, it actually can improve their behavior. It is also scientifically proven that videogames are beneficial in various ways.

Since the Early 70’s video games have been giving a bad name. Parents state that video games rot the minds of children and are influencing them do be violent. These accusations are far from the truth. In my research I found that there are many positive effects of gaming. Some of these effects are increased skills, creativity, general knowledge, and also help those in need. Parents can also take proper precautions and look into a game before buying it to see if it meets the criteria discussed in this paper.

All that is required is just skillfully managing the keyboard. Computer life is so exciting, that sometimes people are not concerned so much on events that occur in reality, as on what is happening in the virtual world. Where, by passing different levels and achieving any success, player feels how great and powerful he is. With each passing day, the video game industry progresses, giving us the better opportunity to fully enjoy the scene. The purpose of this essay is to prove that video games bring more harm than benefits to children. Firstly in this essay, negative effects will be considered, after that it will review benefits of video games, and finally give recommendations to parents, how not to allow games to negatively influence their children.