According to bartholow 2006, the researches measured a type of brain activity called the P300 response which reflects the emotional impact of an image. When shown images of real life violence, people who played violent video games were found to have diminished response. People who play a lot of violent video games didn’t see them as much different from neutral. They become desesitised. However their responses are still normal for the non-violent negative scenes. Many have argued over scenes of graphic violence.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Summarizing from the article of A Way to Reduce Stress. . :))
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Summarizing from the article of Violent Computer Games May Make People More Likely to Act Aggressively a Study Says. . :))
According to starr 2010, stress is one of the main contributors of heart disease and stroke. Some find exercise relaxing, while others cook. Recent studies found that playing games really helps relieve stress. In games you can escape to another world. A place of fantasy or a futuristic one with amazing creatures. Feed your imagination and have fun. After playing you’ll feel refreshed. A benefit of game play is it improves cooperation and teamwork. The skills that he learned helped him become a more effective manager on the job.
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Paraphrasing from article of Negative Effects of Video Games.
According to Silva, (1995 ) expectations from parents that video games can give negative impacts and Effects to children is exactly right there are many negative impact playing video games such as children practice how to play and get a high score when they play some games that is when they played games like need for speed and other racing games they apply when they stuck in traffic. They can just rev up their engine and road rage. Then, they can get disease such as insomnia, sleeplessness in the night if they are addicted to a game. Spent a lot of money when they play a games. Besides that, when they get non-original copies of computer games, it can easily breakup and cost to repair the computer is high. Then, when they really waste their time to play games, the possibility to get disease that called carpal tunnel syndrome, ruined posture and back pain is high.
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Paraphrasing from Article The Effect of Video Game on The Brain. . :))
According to Kardaras (2004), video games may increase a players behavior and emotion outbursts. A game centers is a place for frustrated people punching and kicking machines out of their control and this game also can make some people go crazy. It is shown that players being to obsess into the video games and become mush inhibited to share their emotions. He said that young people who are heavy gamers will end up with an effect on their brain. This is because the beta waves from the video games show the liveliness and degree of tension in the brain. A part of that, heart rate also can be change by electrical signals from emotional centers in the brain called epinephrine that may increase heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen consumption. Even though video games can release tense but it could give us a long term effect on the autonomic nerves.
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