Ishtiaque Ahmed
Ms. Lear
Engl. 102
November 9, 2014
Proposal and Thesis In recent times, video games have been really popular among young people. As technology advances, video games have become more and more realistic. Video games and graphical violence have been the matter of concern to the general public as well as the psychological scientists. However, the violence in video games is a subject to a frequent debate; many people argue about whether video games actually affect the young people or not. Although some people think video games causing aggression is just an opinion, through theoretical research, experiments, viewing real life violent incidents addiction to video games etc. we can confirm that violent video games promote violence. Tentative Outline
I. Psychological arousal and addiction A. Violent video games increase physiological arousal.
II. Theoretical research and analysis A. Many researchers and psychologists have given theories on how video games affect the mind of young children. 1. Relationship between violence and “behavioral script” 2. Buckley and Anderson’s GML theory B. Researchers suggested that playing video games has long term effects on children as they don’t have enough life experience. C. Playing violent video games increases
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Gentile, a well-known Ph.D. holder psychologist. In this book, he focuses on effects of violent video games and other violent media. He compares and contrasts these media with citing reliable sources. He includes a meta-analytic summery of the violent video games effects. In this book, the author declares that violent video games doesn’t seem to have as many effects as violence on television. To author’s view, violent video games appear to help grow aggressive feelings and thoughts, physiological arousals, and aggressive actions and attitudes, as well as to reduce prosocial