PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Meta-Analysis, Longitudinal Study, Homicide
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97% of children in the united states play at least 1 hour of video games per day. V. g. do not lead to attention problems, and in fact contribute to improved focus in resolving conflict among stimuli. V. g. improve ability to track multiple objects at once. Improve the brain: parietal cortex orienting attention, frontal lobe maintain attention, anterior cingulate regulate attention and resolve conflict. V. g. improve ability to switch tasks quickly. Bonus from beginning: v. g. makes vision better and improves differentiation. Per research thus far, shooter games contribute the most cognitive benefits. Spatial reasoning ability, which shooters improve, strongly predicts success in science, technology, Adachi and willoughby, 2013: role-playing games report higher problem solving ability over the course of one year, racing or fighting games don"t report this change. Tracking violent crimes and violent video game consumption. Video games and other risk factors for violence. Perhaps we"re choosing to see the seemingly fixable trees instead of the much scarier forest.
