Positive And Negative Effects Of Videogames On Children

Effects of Videogames on Children Videogames have progressed very rapidly in the past few decades, and have worked their way into cultures, even forming unique cultures of their own. As they progress, newer generations take a liking to them, and has now created a unique culture in which virtually every child has played at least one form of a videogame. This creates a concern for parents, worried that increasingly popular violent videogames are affecting their children, and can cause aggression and behaviors that the child does not normally display. However, negatives of videogames are often exaggerated and overstated, but new studies are surfacing revealing the positives of videogames. This paper will cover the positives and negatives of videogames, and methods that researchers recommend to keep videogames a positive impact.
Positives of Videogames Many of the positives of videogames have only recently come to light as the new studies have risen trying …show more content…
In both orthodox and some unorthodox ways, videogames are starting to reach into all sorts of things, such as pilots use flight simulators based on powerful gaming engines to train, and now even surgeons use videogames to change. “Surgeons who had played video games in the past for more than 3 hours a week made 37% fewer errors, were 27%, and scored 42% better overall than surgeons who never played video games (Rosser, Lynch, Cuddihy, Gentile, & Merrell, 2007)”. Other applications of this have