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  • Essay / Can Video Games Change People's Behavior - 1159

    Another skill that children and adolescents can develop by playing video games is problem solving and creativity. This skill can also benefit children and teenagers as they would be able to find creative ways to solve various puzzles and any other problems. This can benefit children and teenagers in real life because it will help them think outside the box and be more creative than usual. The type of real-life situations this skill can be useful for would be school projects, presentations, and how they might want to dress. Games that children and teens can play to improve this skill are "Angry Birds" or "Cut the Rope." Additionally, another of the main positive effects of video games is that they can help children and adolescents improve their social skills. Since modern games allow you to play with people from all over the world, work together, and cooperate with each other, improving social skills shouldn't be a problem. Additionally, while having this experience, children and teens can also form friendships with multiple people at once. From experience, video games can improve your social skills to the point where a person can meet people and have a long-standing friendship with other people to the point where you will meet them in person. So after looking at this statistic among many different statistics, this would be one of the most accurate. Additionally, another positive effect that video games can have is that they can decrease a person's aggression. For this positive effect to occur, a person would need to develop better social skills and interact with more people. When they do, they will be able to meet people they can play with and the game will become less frustrating for them and more fun. Additionally, through my online experience since... middle of paper ...... 2014, "Playing violent video games linked to impulsive behavior." Consumer Health Day. Np, and Web. May 06, 2014“Raise a smart child.” Raise a smart child. Np, and Web. May 6, 2014.Roberts, Donald F. and Ulla G. Foehr. "Children's Futures, Princeton - Brookings: Providing research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children." - The future of children -. Np, and Web. May 6, 2014. Roncero-Menendez, Sara. “9 valuable life lessons we learned from gaming.” Crushable. Np, October 13, 2013. Web. May 7, 2014Smith, Blake. “How do video games affect children?” » How do video games affect children? Bill Maxwell, August 17, 2006. Web. May 6, 2014. Weber, Lisa. “Positive effects of video games on children”. Daily life. Media on demand, and Web. May 6, 2014. Prot, Sara et al. “Video games: good, bad or other? » Pediatric Clinics of North America 59.3 (2012): 647-658.