Abdelrahman Elkenawy
Vesna Bozhinoska
11/08/2017
Eng 101
Argumentative Essay
The truth behind video games.
"If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script." Alan Wake, Video game character. Video games takes us to different amazing worlds as we live and see life form the game characters prospective, on the same day I can kill the entire earth population on video game and save the planet earth from alien invasion on a different game. The only limit on video games industry is human imagination. Moreover, Video games forms our modern life, the more time people spend on video games the more their life style changes and the more their actions and decisions gets changed. People started to fear video games, …show more content…
the mental processes that lead to finding relevant information in one's environment. Studies of attention have been carried out ever since psychology emerged as a social science in the 19th century. Call of Duty and Medal of Honor have now become tools in research facilities because of their ability to enhance attention. A player must shift between a state of mental focus while monitoring the game scene for potential enemies, switching purposely between what psychologists call focused and distributed attention. These studies have shown that fighting off waves of zombies requires game players to suppress distracting information or risk obliteration. Specifically, players detect targets better than non-gamers and avoid becoming distracted by any single event that occurs as a fast-paced game progresses. A zombie will always be followed by another and yet another. The player who gets hung up on pursuing any single member of the walking dead risks attack by legions of others. In one of our studies, we used a well-known psychological test to demonstrate the superiority of an action-game player's attentional skills. The test exposes subjects to a series of letters, interspersed with occasional digits. Each item flashes on the screen at intervals of 100 milliseconds, less than the blink of an eye. Test takers who do not indulge in action video games typically have little difficulty identifying the first digit in the string. But if a second digit follows closely thereafter, they often do not notice it—a psychological phenomenon known as attentional blink. Some experienced action-game players, however, barely blink, catching every target digit as it passes by. Brain scans provide more evidence of the benefits of action games. Widely dispersed regions of the cerebral cortex regulating attention change their activity more in action-game players than in
Vesna Bozhinoska
11/08/2017
Eng 101
Argumentative Essay
The truth behind video games.
"If our lives are already written, it would take a courageous man to change the script." Alan Wake, Video game character. Video games takes us to different amazing worlds as we live and see life form the game characters prospective, on the same day I can kill the entire earth population on video game and save the planet earth from alien invasion on a different game. The only limit on video games industry is human imagination. Moreover, Video games forms our modern life, the more time people spend on video games the more their life style changes and the more their actions and decisions gets changed. People started to fear video games, …show more content…
the mental processes that lead to finding relevant information in one's environment. Studies of attention have been carried out ever since psychology emerged as a social science in the 19th century. Call of Duty and Medal of Honor have now become tools in research facilities because of their ability to enhance attention. A player must shift between a state of mental focus while monitoring the game scene for potential enemies, switching purposely between what psychologists call focused and distributed attention. These studies have shown that fighting off waves of zombies requires game players to suppress distracting information or risk obliteration. Specifically, players detect targets better than non-gamers and avoid becoming distracted by any single event that occurs as a fast-paced game progresses. A zombie will always be followed by another and yet another. The player who gets hung up on pursuing any single member of the walking dead risks attack by legions of others. In one of our studies, we used a well-known psychological test to demonstrate the superiority of an action-game player's attentional skills. The test exposes subjects to a series of letters, interspersed with occasional digits. Each item flashes on the screen at intervals of 100 milliseconds, less than the blink of an eye. Test takers who do not indulge in action video games typically have little difficulty identifying the first digit in the string. But if a second digit follows closely thereafter, they often do not notice it—a psychological phenomenon known as attentional blink. Some experienced action-game players, however, barely blink, catching every target digit as it passes by. Brain scans provide more evidence of the benefits of action games. Widely dispersed regions of the cerebral cortex regulating attention change their activity more in action-game players than in