Sabtu, 24 Maret 2018
The first video game was invented back in 1940. The purpose of making the video game not only to entertain people also to proving the development of technology itself. Not only that, some people use the video game to handle stress, become less depressed and get less hostile during stressful tasks. Today, many claims that video games can lead to violence, mental illness, and character malfunction. In fact, this is not true according to study at Texas A&M conducted by Associate Professor Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson in 2010 showed that someone who plays video game able to handle stress, avoiding mental illness and character malfunction. I will show you the advantages of video games according to the research.
First, playing video games could increase memory capacity. In a 2015 study in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the University of California, Irvine recruited 69 participants and asked them to play Super Mario 3D World for two weeks. The researcher said, "Because of their engaging experiences and enriching 3D virtual environments, provide our brain with meaningful stimulation,". The result is the people who played the game ended up doing better on follow-up memory tasks.
Second, In 2010 Professor Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson sample 103 students, and he orders the student to plays no game, a non-violent game, a violent game with good versus evil theme, or a violent game in which they played ‘the bad guy.’ The results are that violent games reduce depression and hostile feelings. He also said that a violent game can be as a therapy to help to find a way to reduce the stress in real life.
But, we can not close our eyes that lots of mass murder linked to the video games. The reason is that the suspect played the video game and their reason doing the murder is because they inspired by the video game. But, when I read through the suspect family background their relationship between the suspect and his family is not too good. Some of the suspects also got bullied by his friend at the school. So we can see the main factor, someone, causing violence, got a mental illness or character malfunction is not the video games but the person-environment itself.
In conclusion, when playing the video game we have to be wise. Make sure you get yourself enough rest, enough socialize because it affects your body and mental condition. For the parent who has a kid who likes playing a video game, make sure to keep them accompany.
