To what extent does video game violence effect childrens behaviour?
This blog is for me to display all my critical reserch and in turn use it as a from of primary research. The question, whcich is stated above, is the question i hope to study throughout this project.
I believe that computer game violence does not affect children's behaviour because many games that are of a violent nature will have an age restriction on them, meaning that they are not suitable for children under that age. So if parents are purchasing these games and letting children play on them under the restricted age, then the parents must take the consequence with letting the under age child play on an age restricted game. Plus people need to give children more credit, in reference to the “Bobo” doll experiment that was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961. It look at children's behaviour towards a life size doll and the attitude the children showed towards it and then the attitude that the children displayed towards other children. It showed that yes the children were violent towards the doll but that is because they knew that it wasn't real meaning it would not feel any pain whereas there following peers do have feeling and knew that it would hurt them if the were violent towards them. So in conclusion I believe that children are not affected by the computer games that they play on as long as they follow the rules that are set out for them. If there is an age restriction on a game then that means that children under that age should not be playing on that game, I mean you won't let an 8 year old watch The Exorcist, would you?
video games have now become an everyday thing, kids want the bloodiest, most violent game out. this shows how even the guidence rating is being ignored by even parents. kids are spending so much money feeding their addiction on the latest games around, parents should play a more active role to make sure kids under age aren't playing the games and getting so addicted.
I can't say that video games and such cause children to become violent or have outbursts of violance for certain because not everyone who plays them reacts or we would have alot more horrible people in the world. However, i can understand why people may react with violance if the games they play show the kinds of explicit violance some games do! It can't be healthy for people to stay in one room all day focused on images of violance and death and if someone becomes depressed and lonely because they are so cut off from the world perhaps this leads to the violant outbursts. I think that 2 many people are entirly living in a virtual world and they have to get out and form real relations with real people not imaginery ones or with people they have never met as people need physical contact and interaction or people do get depressed and angery and in doing so result in hurting people.
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I believe that computer game violence does not affect children's behaviour because many games that are of a violent nature will have an age restriction on them, meaning that they are not suitable for children under that age. So if parents are purchasing these games and letting children play on them under the restricted age, then the parents must take the consequence with letting the under age child play on an age restricted game. Plus people need to give children more credit, in reference to the “Bobo” doll experiment that was conducted by Albert Bandura in 1961. It look at children's behaviour towards a life size doll and the attitude the children showed towards it and then the attitude that the children displayed towards other children. It showed that yes the children were violent towards the doll but that is because they knew that it wasn't real meaning it would not feel any pain whereas there following peers do have feeling and knew that it would hurt them if the were violent towards them. So in conclusion I believe that children are not affected by the computer games that they play on as long as they follow the rules that are set out for them. If there is an age restriction on a game then that means that children under that age should not be playing on that game, I mean you won't let an 8 year old watch The Exorcist, would you?
video games have now become an everyday thing, kids want the bloodiest, most violent game out. this shows how even the guidence rating is being ignored by even parents.
kids are spending so much money feeding their addiction on the latest games around, parents should play a more active role to make sure kids under age aren't playing the games and getting so addicted.
I can't say that video games and such cause children to become violent or have outbursts of violance for certain because not everyone who plays them reacts or we would have alot more horrible people in the world. However, i can understand why people may react with violance if the games they play show the kinds of explicit violance some games do! It can't be healthy for people to stay in one room all day focused on images of violance and death and if someone becomes depressed and lonely because they are so cut off from the world perhaps this leads to the violant outbursts. I think that 2 many people are entirly living in a virtual world and they have to get out and form real relations with real people not imaginery ones or with people they have never met as people need physical contact and interaction or people do get depressed and angery and in doing so result in hurting people.
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