Video games do not have only negative effects on children and young people.
"According to a new study in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, regular gamers are fast and accurate information processors, not only during game play, but in real-life situations as well." (http://www.sciencedaily.com/ - may 17. 2010)
This study also showed that playing a game frequently sharpens player's reflexes and therefore helps doing things faster, BUT these gamers do not loose their accuracy ! This is really interesting phenomenon, but there has not been much of research made.
On the other hand, time spent by the screen could be used to study for school. But playing a game is for many guys much more engaging than studying and therefore their school results are declinig.
Interesting! However I’d like to add that only especially created video games are capable to develop reflexes and most of them are educational ones.
OdpovědětVymazatI have to totally agree with this post, because I believe it is true. I am sorry Oksana but educational video games are definately not the only video games that sharper your senses. Try playing a first person shooter against other twenty live people across the internet and you will see what it is to develop your reflexes. Why do you think American army created the same named game (American Army) for training soldiers. They developed their reflexes and war strategies in these game and is used as an off field training program for soldiers in the real army, and I certainly do not believe that it is on the list of "educational games".
OdpovědětVymazatI used to think that it had mostly negative impact on kids but after reading your posts i think i changed my mind...(good job)now i see that it has positive ways also.
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