How does playing video games affect behaviour? Use a picture to make your argument.

-

How does playing video games affect behaviour? Use a picture to make your argument.



Do video games function the same as watching violent social models? According to Craig Anderson and his colleagues, playing aggressive videogames leads to:

  1. Increased arousal
  2. Increased aggressive thinking
  3. Increased aggressive feelings
  4. Increased aggressive behaviours
  5. Decreased prosocial behaviours
  6. Increased physical injury


Indeed, there are some reasons to believe that playing violent video games might be more harmful than watching television. Specifically, players:


  1. identify with, and play the role of, a violent character.
  2. actively rehearse violence, not just passively watch it.
  3. engage in the whole sequence of enacting violence—selecting victims, acquiring weapons and ammunition, stalking the victim, aiming the weapon, pulling the trigger.
  4. are engaged with continual violence and threats of attack.
  5. repeat violent behaviours over and over.
  6. are rewarded for effective aggression.



As we can see in the figure below, playing violent video games, particularly first-person shooter type games, can lead to aggression and violence through the processes mentioned above. Again, no one is saying that everyone who plays these video games will act out, but in the back seat of the destroyed car pictured at the beginning of this module police found a copy of a street racing videogame.

Are video games dangerous? Based on course material, why or why not?

So what is the take-home message? I think the APA recommendations are helpful: Recognize that too much of anything can be a problem, and that some people will exhibit this problem much easier than others. If you are the one playing violent videogames, accessing lots of pornography, or watching violent television, think about how this might influence your thinking. If you are responsible for someone else, you have a responsibility to make sure they aren't overexposed to these potentially problematic media.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Discuss the seven characteristics of useful information.

-
Discuss the seven characteristics of useful information. Answer: The seven characteristics of useful information are: relevant, reliable, complete, timely, understandable, verifiable and accessible. These characteristics are qualities that information should possess to be useful in a business environment. Briefly stated, in order for information to be useful it must be: 1) relevant, meaning that it reduces uncertainty and adds to the decision-making process; 2) reliable information is information that is free from error, and is accurate in its nature; 3) complete information is information that does not omit any important data, facts, or aspects about events or activities; 4) information is timely when it is fully available to enable the decision-making process to proceed; 5) understandable information must be both in an intelligible and useful format; 6) information is considered verifiable if two people, acting independently of each other, produce the same inform
Read more

Why have accounting software packages been designed with separate transaction modules?

-
Why have accounting software packages been designed with separate transaction modules? Answer: : Since every organization does not necessarily use all of the transaction cycles in its operations, it is to the advantage of the organization to be able to "pick and choose" from among various software modules that track and record different transaction cycles. For example, a law firm would have no need to implement a production cycle module. Also, the nature of a transaction cycle varies across the broad spectrum of business organizations. Again, a law firm would have a revenue cycle, but it would not involve the purchase, receipt, and payment for products or merchandise; likewise a retail store chain may not sell any consulting services to its customers.
Read more

A laboratory assistant prepared solution of 0.8 M, 0.6 M, 0.4 M, and 0.2 M sucrose, but forgot to label them. After realizing the error, the assistant randomly labeled the flasks containing these four unknown solutions as flask A, flask B, flask C, and flask D.

-
A laboratory assistant prepared solution of 0.8 M, 0.6 M, 0.4 M, and 0.2 M sucrose, but forgot to label them. After realizing the error, the assistant randomly labeled the flasks containing these four unknown solutions as flask A, flask B, flask C, and flask D. Design an experiment, based on the principles of diffusion and osmosis, that the assistant could use to determine which of the flasks contains each of the four unknown solutions. Include in your answer (a) a description of how you would set up and perform the experiment: (b) the results you would expect from your experiments: and (c) an explanation of those results based on the principles involved. (Be sure to clearly state the principles addressed in your discussion.)
Read more