Running head: VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES CAUSE BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS

Violent video games cause behavior problems Carlos Perdomo Pontificia Universidad Catlica Madre y Maestra

Violent video games cause behavior problems

What if I tell u that Violent video games cause behavior problemes in your childrens? first of all violent video games can be define as a kind of interactive game that have a lot of violent content. Today play video games is a very popular activity everybody like to plays, video games are now a form of entertainment for young people. Is estimated that 70% of children with age between 2 to 18 have access to video games at home, Boys aged 8-18 pass 40 minutes a day playing video games. The number of violent interactions in a 10 minute play is from 2 to 124. Craig, M. (2011) From Harvard Medical School Explains, ''That the violence in video games is common, More than half of all video games rated by the ESRB( Entertainment Software Rating Board) had Violence, including more than 90% of those rated as appropriate for children 10 years or older''. Thus, violent video games make children become more aggressive for all the violent content that they have. Playing a lot of violent video games can make children act violently. In this game that you have to kill people over and over again can teach them to act aggressively. Also a lot of video games the only objective that they have is killing other characters in the game, if the children play it every day they can subconsciously learn these action that are doing in the game and become violent. (Polman et al., 2008). He realized a study were he take children and randomly assigned to play a violent video game or watch someone else play it. There was also a non violent Video game control condition. The results showed that boys who played a violent video game were more aggressive afterwards than were boys who merely watched it. Playing a lot of violent video game can make children think that violence is funny, they also can associate violence with entertainment. Also if they play too much they and get addicted to this kind of video games there can come a time where they can't distinguish between the real life and the video games.

As a result some people argue that violent video game don't make the people more aggressive. They put own examples about how they grow up playing violent video games and they don t are aggressive person but this is just one case in a million. I have said before studies confirm that playing violent video games make the children more aggressive. Other can say that is because the parents are irresponsible for letting their children's play this type of game, but they are just basing the arguement all the fault is the parents we have to know that the parent s of all kids have to go to work and they can t stay with their children 24/7 monitoring what they are doing. There are a lot of violent video game on internet instead the parents don't buy it to their children this type of game they can always download it for their pc. It is clear that violent video games make children become more aggressive for all the violent content that they have. First of all this can they can see violence as normality. A research reported in May 2010 issue of ''Psychological Bulletin'' led by Iowa State University psychology professor Craig Anderson found that violent gaming can increase feeling of aggression and antisocial behavior in teenagers, regardless of their sex. Berk (2010). Also wrote that the columbine High school teenage murderers were obsessed with playing a violent video game. We have to know that playing violent video games is not the only thing that cause the behavior problems on teenager or children s. There is different thing that is combinated like antisocial friendship groups, dysfunctional family, ect.