Articol in engleza despre avantajele si dezavantajele jocurilor video
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1. Most games favor the development of logic to solve problems through puzzles and riddles.
2. Video games streamline decision making because players develop long-term ability to figure out effectively the possibilities of an option, evaluating the best way to go. Playing games develop a better perception of what is happening around players, according to a research conducted by scientists the University of Rochester in New York (2010).
3. The interaction in video games improves fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination of preschool children, according to a study by Deakin University in Melbourne.
4. Cooperative and online games promote sociability, teamwork, ability to solve problems together for both children and adults.
Negative effects of video games:1. Aggressiveness: children are increasingly exposed to growing physical and sexual violence present in all media. The violent content of these media may cause childhood aggression (Anderson 2007).
2. Violence and pornography: video games such as “Grand Thief Auto” and “Call of Duty” for over 18 years, are training children to shoot and kill in a virtual world in which the values of life are lost.
Online multiplayer games are not recommended for children under 13 years because it is in this environment where unhealthy habits (rudeness, bullying , addiction, pornography ) develop, says Andrew Doan, medical PhD, author of “Hooked on Games”.
3. Attention problems: high speed media content can contribute to attention deficit disorder, as well as decreased concentration and memory (Christakis 2004 , Small 2008). Elementary school children who play video games more than two hours a day were 67 % more likely to develop attention problems, according to a study published in Pediatrics magazine.
4. Impatience: “New technologies make us more impatient and decrease frustration tolerance. They also relax a part of our brain that has to be worked”, said Alvaro Bilbao, neuropsychologist.
5. Addiction: the player’s immediate response to stimuli game generates a mini-reward in the form of release of dopamine (pleasure hormone).