Your Child's Brain On Technology Analysis

Technology has become second nature to our daily lives because we use it to think when we can’t, to help us from being bored, and to keep us in touch with the world. Hank Pellissier, in his article, “Your Child’s Brain on Technology: Video Games” quotes, “Take a deep breath. To relax, you scroll through Facebook and catch up on your email. Meekly, you join the other mesmerized zombies.” Clearly, we’re infected by these upcoming innovations and awaiting for fresh creativity. And speaking of zombies: my son plays Plants vs. Zombies, and as scary as that game may sound by its title, it distinctly lives up to its name. It is an entertaining strategic game that helps you think and act fast by using plants to destroy various skilled zombies. Video

If a person sits for hours playing video games day in and day out, it will affect not only your brain but different aspect in your life. The act of playing video games is not harmful. When you exercise excessive

Video game are very addictive. Handful of people play hours on end just to beat the next level or are just simply addictive. The telegraph's Nick Allen described, in about a shooter, and found interesting evidence, "saw him playing violent zombie video games in his room. Sometimes from 12:30 pm until 4:30 am." (P.2) if this specific person wasn’t so addictive to video games he could of spent time outside his room making connections/friends ships and developing a better anchor. Some night say it was his own choice to play video games instead of making connections, but what if his brain didn’t let him because of how adictive he had become to video

The over usage of video games has appeared to affect the mind in the OFC, the striatum, and the sensory regions. Addict gamers appeared to have more of a impulsiveness control than the normal gamer. Players who had played online showed an increase of gray matter density from the other players in the left anterior cingulate cortex. Another thing I found interesting in this article was that higher amounts of dopamine appeared in addict gamers from the “reward process” in videogames than the casual gamer. The Cambridge gambling task ( which affects the brain in making poor decisions) was found higher in addict gamers. Not only that, but addict gamers appeared to have a slower information processing than normal players.

There have been studies that state that “high video game usage was associated with a 1.75 times the odds of high intellectual functioning and 1.88 times the odds of high overall school competence” (Time Spent Playing…). Today, schools are also “giving away scholarships for “League of Legends” professional gamers” (Levy). A possible concern is “gamers are less empathetic, especially after playing benign games” (Wells). Studies show that gamers who play violent and sexist games such as “Grand Theft Auto V” are less sympathetic and compassionate about females. With this being a possibility, it is indeed unhealthy, but it is because gamers are actually controlling the character and making all the decisions in the game. They are not guided by something or someone else. They are on their own and this means that it actually “affects their thoughts, feelings, and behavior, at least in short term” (Wells). As long as it’s only short term, then it will be fine in the long run.

First of all, the effects of the video game on a person depends on what type of game it is. Some of the most popular games are Call of Duty, and GTA 5. According to npr.org, “ People who played action video games that involve first-person shooters, such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honor, experienced shrinkage in a brain region called the hippocampus, according to a study published Tuesday in Molecular Psychiatry.” (Columbus) Even if it has a negative effect, it also has positive outcomes. Games are also rated by a

Video games have been argued about for decades. Some people have argued that video games are linked to violence. However, new research shows that video games can be used for therapeutic purposes, exercise, stress relievers, positive interactive learning, hand eye coordination, and different types of patient treatment for people all around the world.

Despite the multiple studies that have been conducted about the impact of video games on the brain. This will remain a long debated issue. There are some who argue that there is no impact on the brain from playing video games. Then there are others who argue that there is irreversible damage on the brain from video games. Some claim that video games can enhance performances, and hold beneficial value in training and even medical technology. On the other hand, there are studies that show video games can make a person anti- social and in some cases obese. The overall consensus is that there is some type of impact. Whether that impact is positive or negative, depends on who you ask.

Playing video games for hours at a time in one day, every day of the week can lead to another major problem, gaming addiction. Youth may become obsessed with the game and think they have to beat it before they do anything else and never want to leave their rooms because they want to consistently play the game. Dr. Russell A. Sabella states in his article on Education.com that: “for most people, computer use and video game play is integrated into their lives as a balanced manner. For others, time spent on the computer or video games is out of balance and has displaced work, school, friends, even family”(Sabella). Becoming addicted to video games can cause a lot of problems in the family because some parents like to have family dinners and they have to literally fight with their kid to get

Video games should not be classified as “bad” and if someone classifies them that way then hopefully they have some kind of different outlook after reading this. Where video games get this negative outlook is from the inglorious bastard genre of the “action” or first person shooter, when in reality, that’s one genre of 10’s if not 100’s of others that are established. Video games do in fact have beneficial attributes even though people think of them as addictive brainwashing mechanisms, and there are means to make video games a learning technique. Six experts on video games collaborated, and this is what they had to say.

Do you know someone who plays video games? At first it may seem like they’re fun, but later it will have them screaming on the top of their lungs when something does not go as planned. Video games have a negative effect on children and teenagers because it increases aggressive behavior, it is unhealthy, and causes addiction.

Kids love video games. Not only is it fun for them, but recent studies show that it 's a healthy activity for children to engage in. According to a study at Oxford university kids that play video games are less hyperactive, more social and happier than those who don 't play at all.

There have been studies on this particular topic, and in this article it says that most of the children that play video games fall asleep in school spend the hours that they are not in school playing videos games instead of studying, and they are falling behind with their assigned homework. While for teenagers playing video games causes them to have feelings that are intense and guilt that is quite uncontrollable. While both children and teenagers seem to experience anger, and depression when they are not gaming. Children and teenagers are learning this behavior from videos games and they have the violence in their eyes, as in the games such as Call of Duty and Mortal Kombat, it is a reward to murder their

Video games have become America's children's most fun activity to play. The children like playing the video games so much because the games are addicting trying to get higher than last time or last longer or get to the end of the game or level it's so crazy. I say it's addicting because you always want to do better or you want to do better than everyone els. There's an online were you can play with others you don't know. Sometimes they go against each other and when they lose so they get really mad and defensive.

Various studies that have been conducted previously to analyze the effects of a video game on children show that as children play over and over, the game has a feature of addiction as well as fascination. This makes the playing children more violent and harmful to other children, (Douglas, 23-55). A