Does Video Game Violence Affect Children?

Does Video Game Violence Affect Children?


Abstract


Does Video Game Violence Affect Children?


This project shows if video game violence affects children. Many children

between the ages of eight years old and ten years old will be observed before,

during, and after playing violent video games.   Looking for violent behavior

before, during, and after playing violent video games is the whole experiment.

The conclusion is that most children have no problems after playing the violent

videogames.


I think that most of the children will be unaffected by playing violent games.

Most children have the ability to tell the difference between reality and a game,

so they should act normally.  But the others may have their behavior affected

because of the lack of telling the difference between reality and pretend.


For my experiment I used a Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Sony

Playstation, and PC CD-ROM.  The games I used were Mortal Kombat Trilogy (on

Nintendo 64), Mortal Kombat II (on Super Nintendo), Mortal Kombat (on Sega

Genesis), Killer Instinct Gold (on Nintendo 64), Power Rangers (on Sega Genesis),

Tomb Raider (on PC CD-ROM), and Bishouju Senshi Sayla Moon SuperS (on Japanese

Playstation).


The first step I used was gathering a group of children ages 8-10 years old (5

girls, and 5 boys), got their parents permission, and made sure they had no idea

there was an experiment taking place.  The second step I took was observing the

children play together before being exposed to violent video games, I looked for

any sign of violent behavior.  What I consider violent behavior is punching,

kicking, slapping (even if no contact is made), and cussing. After watching

them I discovered that none of them showed any signs of violent behavior.  The

third step was letting them play the video ga
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