How are Video Games Helpful? Imagine being a child again and rushing back room from school to jump back into the virtual world of video games. You have waited all day just to get back the never ending story of this video game. Playing it is your favorite pasttme, and most of your daily activities are consumed by it. Then just as your turning on your computer your mom comes into your room and says, “No more video games! They are too bad for you!”. You ask your mom for just few more minutes, but she only believes that video games are harmful for your health. Well, that is changing quite a lot. Today. Modern technology has enhanced video games and new research shows they can not only not be harmful, but they might actually have some benefits. about video games is that they can also be very beneficial.
Can video games improve reflexes?
Are video games beneficial? Yes, video games are beneficial because they are an important part of our modern day culture. In this generation with all the advancements in technology video games will become more and more popular. Some children that play video games are limited by the games they play based on opinions their parents have about video games. For the last few decades video games were seen as a waster of time and an activity that would “melt your brain,” but as our society has advanced farther into the once seen future many discoveries are being made about the games that were once thought to be harmful.
One of the things we have discovered is how video games can help and harm someone’s abilities. Video games can teach many useful skills someone might need in their job or life. One of the skills video games teach is fast eye-to-hand coronation. Studies has shown that playing fast paced action video games trains your body to make some actions faster. Another skill that video games teach is the ability to make the correct decisions quicker. In a study held by the University of Rochester scientists had one group of people play the fast paced video game Call of Duty 2 and another group of people play a slow paced strategy game The Sims 2. After having both groups play their given game for 50 hours the scientists had each group go through a test which shows one decision making skill. After testing both groups it was seen that the group of people that played Call of Duty 2 were about 25 percent faster than the other group.
Can video games improve vision in people with vision impairments? Video games can improve others skills also when playing the game for a average period of time. If someone was to play an action paced game for a hour to a hour and a half once a day for a week this hand to eye coordination would show improvements from before and after the week. Video games can also improve our vision. In a study done by Rochester University a few scientists test multiple subjects with different vision impairments. The scientist had the subject first play a action packed video game for 5 hours and monitor their vision. Then the scientists tested the subject for 10 hour on how they play the game. After these two tests have been done the scientist then had a general idea of each subject’s vision. The subject were then allowed to go home and for a month they had to play the same video game they were tested with for 10 hours a week, but no more than 2 hours at once. After the month was up they subjects were brought back in to be tested exactly the same as they were before the month, their first time being tested. All the subjects showed improvements in many different areas of their vision. Some were seeing better with their dominant eye or with their worse eye, and most of the subjects showed improvements in their ability to see direction of motion. They were also able to see smaller details and were able to see things in a lower contrast.
Can video games help someone learn easier? Video games have been proven to also improve learning in students. In a test done by multiply scientists they tested two groups of people. One group was put through 50 hours of playing an action game before being tested. Another group was tested right away without having any experiences with gaming. The test was a learning based problem that was only able to be solved if the subject learned the pattern. Once they found the pattern they applied it to the given puzzle and complete the test. After the test the scientists compared results and found that the group that went through the 50 hour gaming session learned the pattern significantly faster than the other group and then completed the puzzle. The scientists concluded that at a younger age playing video games does have a positive affect in learning and school. Citations: Blank, Alan. "Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions That Are No Less Accurate." : Rochester News. N.p., 13 Sept. 2010. Web. 06 Nov. 2015. Bejjanki, Vikranth R. "Action video game play facilitates the development of better perceptual templates." Proceedings of the National Acade my of Sciences. N.p., 15 Oct. 2014. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. Dreifus, Claudia. "How Video Games Could Improve Our Vision." <i>The New York Times</i>. The New York Times, 27 Aug. 2012. Web. 04 Nov. 2015. Game Consoles. Digital image. Examined Existence. N.p., 24 Sept. 2013. Web. 4 Nov. 2015. Patenaude, Monique. "Playing Action Video Games Can Boost Learning." NewsCenter. N.p., 10 Nov. 2014. Web. 06 Nov. 2015. Video Games. Digital image. Top Five Most Popular Video Games of All Time. N.p., 18 Mar. 2015. Web. 4 Nov. 2015.