Unit 6 Critical approaches to gaming P3
Upon researching the effects of violent video games in people younger people i believe that there are some positive effects and some negative effects with playing video games.
I created a survey where i asked a series of questions asking there views on the effect of video games and what effect they feel it has had on there life. The majority of the people believe that it has an effect however they feel that video games are not the sole cause of. Everybody who participated has played a violent video game at some point in there life. When asked what emotion they feel the most whilst playing video games most responded with happiness or some form of excitement.
The overall average time the people who i asked play video games there are a few which answered with 100+ hours a week which is obsessive however the average between everybody was 43 hours a week (this is still obsessive) bit not to the same extent. Spending that much time could be damaging to your physical and mental health. However not everybody who spends an obsessive amount of time on a video game will cause you to be bloodthirsty killer even if the only games you play are violent. For many playing video games is a way to social or distract you from your own personal problems in the real world. There are studies which also show it can improve your reaction time and your attention to detail which can be used to train surgeons and other people who requite precise and skilled movement in there hands.
There are mixed answers to whether people feel they have been desensitised by playing video games, 60% do feel they have been desensitised in some way but all of them do not believe that video games have made them violent or aggressive. They do feel that video games can desensitise people but do not cause violence, this can be backed up with the fact that ever since the rising popularity of video games, crime has also decreased.
I created a survey where i asked a series of questions asking there views on the effect of video games and what effect they feel it has had on there life. The majority of the people believe that it has an effect however they feel that video games are not the sole cause of. Everybody who participated has played a violent video game at some point in there life. When asked what emotion they feel the most whilst playing video games most responded with happiness or some form of excitement.
The overall average time the people who i asked play video games there are a few which answered with 100+ hours a week which is obsessive however the average between everybody was 43 hours a week (this is still obsessive) bit not to the same extent. Spending that much time could be damaging to your physical and mental health. However not everybody who spends an obsessive amount of time on a video game will cause you to be bloodthirsty killer even if the only games you play are violent. For many playing video games is a way to social or distract you from your own personal problems in the real world. There are studies which also show it can improve your reaction time and your attention to detail which can be used to train surgeons and other people who requite precise and skilled movement in there hands.
There are mixed answers to whether people feel they have been desensitised by playing video games, 60% do feel they have been desensitised in some way but all of them do not believe that video games have made them violent or aggressive. They do feel that video games can desensitise people but do not cause violence, this can be backed up with the fact that ever since the rising popularity of video games, crime has also decreased.
