Review Draft 2 10/25/2013 Research Proposal Question Do violent video games cause teenagers to commit violent crimes? Most people would argue that video games cause teenagers to commit violent crimes‚ but not everyone agrees with that. There are many cases that people have conducted research on teenagers that have committed acts of violence after playing video games. The authors of these articles state that video games leads to aggression and violence in the people that actually become
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Video Games Do Not Cause Violence Video games have come a long way since they were first introduced in 1967. In addition to the impressive improvement in graphics‚ the increase of the violent content has become quite the hot topic amongst parents and politicians alike. The most popular aspect is whether or not violent video games inhibit aggressive behavior. Early research that suggested there was a link between the two has been deemed problematic. However‚ in recent studies “research has not found
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playing violent video games do increase aggressive behavior in children and adults alike. My reasoning for this is unlike violent movies‚ violent video games require input from the player. By aggressive behavior‚ I am specifically talking about verbal and emotional behavior‚ not physical behavior because juvenile crime has decreased in the last decade since games were introduced. My theory on this is that the violent video games give the player to get physical aggression out in the game versus on someone
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Video Games: Who’s Really Responsible? Melissa Hinkley Rosemary Mekita Composition I - February 29‚ 2012 Video Games: Who’s Really Responsible? It’s in the news at least once a week it seems. A crazed gunman goes on a rampage‚ leaving horror in their wake. The thought in most people’s minds are the same‚ “What caused this?” The finger pointing inevitably begins and as it seems more and more prevalent‚ those fingers get pointed at violent video games. Christopher Ferguson believes this
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fellow man‚ it does not take long for several unintended consequences to transpire. Physicist William Higinbotham allegedly created the first video game in October of 1958. The purpose of the game’s exordium was to draw interest in technology and instrumentation. Even though Higinbotham did not have any major expectations or future plans for his invention‚ video games managed to exceed their original intention‚ which caused consternation within the accomplished physicist. Once major companies
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Introduction The video-gaming industry is a multi-billion dollar industry‚ top selling games producing millions of dollars in their first few days of release. But the industry’s biggest sellers are violent video games (LeClaire‚ 2006). These days‚ people are desensitized towards violence that they practically walk past violent events in the street or helpless‚ injured people without thinking twice or casting a second glance (cyh.com‚ 2010). Are video games the cause for increased violent behaviour
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How Video Games Effect Children During the last decade‚ attention and accusations within the media have turned more to the meteoric rise in popularity of arcade-type home computer and console games. Considerable anecdotal evidence abounds about how teenagers are affected by shoot-em-up and beat-em-up games. Zimbardo (1982) remarked that video games are so addictive to young people that they may be socially isolating and may actually encourage violence between people. Another comment came from
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playing too much video games? Well‚ you should be concerned. Researchers confirmed playing to much video games cause mental breakdowns and depressing activity. Also‚ video game addiction can cause health issues such as backaches‚ headaches‚ eye strain‚ and carpal tunnel syndrome. Lastly‚ long hours on video games can negatively affect your child’s performance in school. I believe gaming is terrible for you because‚ it can cause mental breakdowns or depressing activity‚ video games can cause health
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Franca Mr. Michael Copeland IEP Writing Skills 12 March 2013 Video Game Addiction: Life Related Video Game addiction is the action of playing video games or computer games excessively and compulsively to the extreme that can make one forget the real world and live in the virtual world. Addictive behavior is defined by six main aspects: salience‚ mood modification‚ tolerance‚ withdrawal‚ symptoms‚ conflict‚ and relapse. Video game addiction satisfies the definition of addiction. On the other
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many grossly popular video games today‚ and they have one main thing in common: violence. Whether one is shooting down Nazi soldiers on the beaches of Normandy or sawing apart Locust drones on the planet Sera with his or her lancer‚ one is engaging in extremely violent video-game action‚ and probably having a lot of fun doing so. With the rapid growth of intensely violent games‚ parents and politicians across the nation have begun to protest against violence in video games and have even gone as
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