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    Many people think video games can cause violence. Most of the people reading this would say yes, that video games do cause violence because a lot of times you see video games connect with violence on the news, but how often are video games the main reason that the act of violence someone caused happened. But what is video game violence and how do these scientists classify it? Most importantly how do you measure aggression?There have been 300 studies give or take between 2005 to 2013. That's on average

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    Video game play can be very beneficial in the educational process. It can enhance cognitive abilities and skills in children and adolescents. In fact, studies have found that improvements in cognition have been related to grey matter changes in the prefrontal cortex. Specifically, a study conducted by Simon Kuhn, in which magnetic resonance imaging scans of 152 14-year old adolescents were collected and used to estimate cortical thickness, showed an increase in cortical thickness in the left dorsolateral

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    arcade game "Death Race" was released based on the movie "Death Race 2000". The objective of this game was to use your car in order to run over fleeing goblins. This video game was so simple but had so much controversy behind it that it led to the first study on the physiological effect of video games on the human mind. Ever since Death Race, video games have continued to make huge advances in order to create an almost endless amount of possibilities on what you can or cannot do in a video game. Since

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    Introduction Video games have been one of the most popular sources of entertainment for quite some time. Video games have changed the entertainment industry and is now a billion-dollar industry. The industry has also effected society. Of course, there are some benefits of using video games, but there are also many negative effects of the use of video games, especially on today’s youth. According to NPD, ninety-one percent of children from the age of two to seventeen play video games (Camp, 2011)

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    Kain, Erik. “The Truth About Video Games and Gun Violence.” Mother Jones, 11 June 2013, www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/video-games-violence-guns-explainer/. This source is written by Erik Kain, a well-known writer on all things video games. He talks about the link between violent video games and gun violence and he compares the United States to other countries in terms of gun violence caused by violent video games. Kain may be slightly biased as video games are what his job revolves around

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    Violent Video Games Did you know that seventy-one percent of American teens play video games? Violent video games have a negative effect because they teach children and teens that violence is the way to solve real life problems. The following paragraphs will go into details on how they are bad, how they are good, their bad effects and their good effects. Ninety-eight percent of pediatricians say violent video games lead to aggression. Eight out of ten researchers say violent video games lead to violent

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    Video game violence has been a discussion dating back to games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders to current games like Call of Duty and Mario. Many people are lead to believe that video games can cause children to act violent. However, video games do not cause violence in children. Video games can help in many ways either in society, people with certain disorders, or improve some mental issues. Video games help shape society in the way they bring people together. Video games are said to bring kindness

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    Media and Development: Video Games One of the most common forms of entertainment among children today is video games. Video games are not only an enjoyable and entertaining means of passing time, but they also can help children develop hand-eye-coordination. In fact, one study estimates that about 91% of children from the ages of 2-17 play video games (Coldeway, 2011). With the increasing use of this form of entertainment, psychologists and parents alike question whether this form of media is actually

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    Effects of playing Video Games Video Games have become a world phenomenon and people love them. The video game industry in 2015 made around $91.5 billion dollars and every year since the amount has gone up. Everyone at some point has seen or played a video game, but it can be hard for people to put it down or know how much time has past sinse you first picked it up. And they are good time wasters for good reasons or bad. They are just like going to see a movie or watching TV. However most people

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    Video games have been around for half a century when, the first simple tennis game was designed by William Higinbotham in 1958. Since then, video games have gotten more in depth, with better graphics and more options which include violent video games. Violent videos have gotten more popular with a better amount of variety including the franchise of Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Grand Theft Auto. These are the most common and popular video games and because of the violence in them debate has started

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