Video Gaming Problems

Plenty of studies in the past indicate that video games are the main cause to many health problems including addiction, aggression, obesity and repetitive strain injuries. The media coverage for the negatives is huge! Maybe because people prefer to hear the bad instead of the good, that way it is easier to blame. However, many new studies showed that gaming can actually benefit you, and some study showed that gamers who play frequently are better at perceptual tasks such as pattern discrimination than non-gamers (Griffiths, 2014). Throughout the years, video games evolved and became more versatile when it comes to graphics, plots and genres. Nowadays, all you hear in media is how violent video games are or how evil they are; whenever there

You might see your mom playing Candy Crush or your dad playing Tetris. If you asked them, they probably would tell you that they played Pong on the Atari back in the days, and this might leads into building a strong family bond with your parents or even your kids; both parties can learn from each other and know the skills and ability of one another in a fun light environment (Raise Smart Kid, N/A; see also Sohn, 2004). The misconception about video gaming, which it has to be connected to a TV with a console or a desktop device but on the contrary, you can play any game from your phone or any electronic device you own. “Several studies show that video game play can improve a wide range of visual and spatial skills. Correlational studies have found positive associations between gaming experience and performance in numerous visual tasks, such as target localization and faster visual reaction times. Experimental studies have demonstrated that even as little as 10 hours of video game play can improve spatial attention and mental rotation.” (Strasburger 2012). As mentioned before, gaming can stimulate your brain to work differently; it almost can be the same as steroids but for the brain, and some strategic games can increase your intelligence, it makes you think outside the box on how to defeat your opponent and save your

I bet it is an awesome thing. Well video games can help you to achieve that, one psychologist from Grant MacEwan University in Canada, Jayne Gackenbach, said: “If you 're spending hours a day in a virtual reality, if nothing else it 's practice. Gamers are used to controlling their game environments, so that can translate into dreams” (Hsu, 2010). That does not mean you will turn into Neo from The Matrix, but gaming makes you more lucid which means you have an awareness that you are dreaming instead of believing the dream (Hsu, 2010). Another psychologist from Finland, Antti Revonsue, conducted a theory under the title of ‘the threat simulation’. She suggested that dreams copies our lives, and when you have a nightmare it is just a twisted alternative reality, and gamers tends to have control over the situation by planning and focusing on how to overcome the fear unlike non-gamers who sometimes get lost between dreams and reality (Hsu,