Video Games And T. V The Cause Of A Violent Community

Hundreds of studies have been done to determine whether violent video games will really make juveniles more violent. Randomized experiments were used in several studies to examine the short-term effect of violent video games (Anderson and Berkowitz et al. 90). In these studies, children were randomly assigned to play violent or nonviolent video games and then were observed when given an opportunity to be aggressive. The result was that children who played violent video games usually behaved aggressively.

It is agreeable that there are some correlation between teenagers playing video games and how it affects the youth mentally. Heavy consumption of violence video games does indeed stimulate a change reaction in the brain waves, but there is no hard evidence stating that those changes causes teenagers to act aggressively and violently. On the contrary, it is a popular beliefs that violence video games does indeed causes teenagers to displayed unpleasant behaviors and actions because that is what they learned and observed from the games. Therefore, parents should limit and regulate the amount of time their teenagers are playing violence video games so that they can protect their children from negative behaviors.

Violent video games can contribute to violence, especially in youth. Violent video games expose players to real-life violence. Video games are becoming more and more realistic. Violent video games teach youth that violence is an acceptable way to solve arguments or fights between people. These games encourage killing and fighting enemies. Some games kill zombies, shoot people, and fight to the end of death. Playing violent video games increases mean behavior and triggers anger, especially in kids that have major behavior or mental problems. Violent video games have been blamed for bullying, school shootings or attacks, and violence towards girls.

How do video games affect the brain of the youth of America? There are actually many more ways than one might think, it affects one’s attitude, attention span, and how one might react when complimented or insulted. Video games have both positive and negative effects on a child's brain. When played to much video games become a bad thing leading to reduced social time or addiction, but in my studies when played about seven hours a week video games are actually beneficial.

Another contributor to violent behavior is media. For many years, video games have been highly criticized to have harmful effects. Vincent Cicchirillo and Rebecca Chory-Assad’s article “Effects of Affective Orientation and Video Game Play on Aggressive Thoughts and Behaviors” states, “Regarding media violence, Sparks and Sparks (2002) suggested that the role played by individual differences in the media violence–aggressive behavior link and effects of video games on aggressive behavior will be the foci of future research” (Cicchirillo & Chory-Assad 436). They believe video games are the significant cause of violent behavior and focus on exploiting the effects. In another article called “Popular Video Games: Quantifying the Presentation of Violence and Its Context”, Ken Lachlan, Stacy L. Smith, and Ron Tamborini claim, “Theory and research reveals playing video games can have a negative impact on

The researchers found that boys and girls who played a lot of violent video games changed over the school year. Media violence is not likely to convert the children into a violent criminal. But, someday by just smoking a cigarette can increase the likelihood of a lung cancer. Likewise, a violent show can increase the likelihood of behaving in an aggressive way. Psychologists Brad Bushman and L. Rowell Huesmann1(p248)

In present day society, the realm of intense and violent video games along with their media counterparts is ever changing, and this transformation is leading to the most expressive and realistic viciousness a child can be exposed to without actually harming another human being. Furthermore, due to this tremendous level of ‘realisticness,’ the inquiry of whether or not the violence portrayed in these video games and television shows leads to an amplified level of aggression and other types of violent behavior in their participants and viewers has become a forerunner among both psychological and parenting authorities. The purpose of this paper is to give an honest assessment of the various studies performed on this topic, as well as to

The future of entertainment revolves around technology. Video games become more and more realistic. The main consumers of violent video games are teens. These games encourage killing and fighting enemies. More ways of playing violent video games are created each year, but most of us have this question in mind. Do violent video games influence young people to act aggressively? I play violent video games online and I am 16 years old. Overplaying video games can have many disastrous effects on teen limiting gameplay can have multiple positive effects.

Video games and television can contribute to violent behavior and aggression but they are not always violent or

On April 20, 1999, two senior students plotted a school shooting, sadly managing to kill 12 students and one teacher, along with several other major injuries. Knowing they would soon be caught, the two perpetrators committed suicide. This was the Columbine High School massacre. Although their motives were unclear, investigators concluded that the shooters conspired to “compete” against other mass shootings in the ‘90s, stating that they were homicidal psychopaths. The shooting was known as the deadliest school shooting ever recorded (History). This incident sparked issues over gun control, goth subcultures, use of pharmaceutical antidepressants, and violence in video games and television. The two students were said to play and watch countless hours of violent video games and television and that was known to be a major cause for this catastrophic event. Therefore, the issue over violent video games and television should be regulated or restricted to children and especially to teenagers.

With the rapid development of new gaming systems, violent video games have become well-liked by children and adolescents. The playing of violent video games has always been a controversial topic, but in recent years it has become a heated debate. Whether the playing of these games desensitize the player or not. Video games have been around since the late 1970s, however violent video games were introduced in the 1990s. In recent years the violence in games have increased along with the enhanced graphics making the games more realistic. Violent video games can have positive and negative effects on children and adolescents.

Video games are the national pastime and have a lot of influences on our children, youths, and young adults. The drive to become the best or beat the game can change the player's outlook on life. Violence in video games has been seen as the cause for aggressive and harmful behavior in young children. Many children become addicted to these video games when they are not monitored. The game child plays can be a good or a bad thing in his life. Some games teach children to develop problem-solving skills, enhance creativity, knowledge retention and literacy. However, the same case does not apply to violent video games. Many studies have shown that violent video games have negative effects on children. These video games have called for concern in our society regarding issues such as physical violence, such as biting, hitting, and kicking, yelling and screaming at someone and destroying properties. The effects of violent video games have varied, children becoming desensitized because these games reward their violent acts and let them view violence as acceptable conflict solver. It makes them resort to saying mean and hurtful towards others. The graphics on these video games cause children to lack empathy. They enjoy seeing another get hurt, see and view the world as a hostile place, and they are unable to relate to the emotions of the other. People have been blaming video games for school shooting and children behavior. But research, as shown that there are many positives effects violent video games, have on children.

On average, an American encounters approximately 200,000 violent acts before the age of eighteen. However, these exposures do not influence an individual to exhibit violence. Concerns regarding whether television and video game brutality has a negative effect on the public by promoting cruelty, dates back to the 1950’s and is still prevalent today. Studies and research conducted on the issue are unable to prove that the two variables have any correlation to each other. In fact, statistics demonstrate how the amount of violent crimes has decreased significantly throughout time, despite the growing video game popularity. Lastly, in society, people look for anything to transfer the blame, especially in regards to a situation that may threaten an individual’s community. As a matter of fact, by reviewing the extensive research the conclusion was drawn stating, exposure has no effect on barbarity. Therefore, television and video game ferocity does not have a negative effect on the population.

RUNNING HEAD:VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOR1Violent Video Games and Violent BehaviorJuan HerradaGlendale Community College

Video games can cause aggressive behavior. While the kids are playing games that involve shooting, swearing, fighting, etc, that is stuff that the kids can pick up on. These aggressive games can influence kids to act on that type of behavior. They could feel it is ‘cool’, or what ‘people do these days’. These games can increase the aggressive thoughts in their brains, as well. Since fighting and using a gun in the game, is considered ‘okay’ because it is a game, a child could start to think that this type of behavior would be okay in the real world. Kids can also get mad that the game did not go how they wanted, and act out in angry behavior.