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Video Gaming Addiction

Video Gaming Addiction. Is it really worth it?. A PowerPoint presentation by Lilian Osborne. Video Gaming in the Past:. Video games have changed a lot since they first came out. Home video games only came out during the third generation of video game consoles.

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Video Gaming Addiction

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  1. Video Gaming Addiction Is it really worth it? A PowerPoint presentation by Lilian Osborne.

  2. Video Gaming in the Past: Video games have changed a lot since they first came out. Home video games only came out during the third generation of video game consoles. When video games first came out you could only play when you went to an arcade or mall. Atari was the first big company that made video games. They started in 1972. The first big selling video game was Computer Space.

  3. Genres of Video Games: • Action • First Person Shooter • Shooter • Action-Adventure • Adventure • Role Playing/Simulation • Strategy

  4. What is an addiction? • An addiction is when something starts to interfere with a persons relationships and/or their goals such as good grades or playing sports.

  5. Symptoms of video game addiction: Falling asleep in school. Falling behind in school. Dropping out of sports and other clubs. Making references to video games. Choosing to play games rather than hang out with friends. Hiding the fact that they are playing. Becoming more anxious or depressed except for when playing games. • Non-school hours are spent on the computer and playing video games. • Irritable when not playing games.

  6. Why are video games so addictive? Trying to beat the high score. Beating the game. Being your dream person that you’ve always wanted to be. Discovering new places in the game and new things to do. Building new relationships with new people that have the same interests in games as you do. • Young people who feel powerless in real life are suddenly leading armies and wreaking havoc in a virtual world without any real consequences and not getting in trouble. • To escape problems in their real lives.

  7. Physical Consequences: • Tunnel Syndrome • Migraines • Sleep Disturbances • Backaches • Eating Irregularities • Poor Personal Hygiene

  8. Social Consequences: • Losing friends. • Your relationships will weaken and may even end. • Ruining your relationship with people that really matter and care about you. • Not having anyone to hang out with because you have been ignoring them. • Getting ignored and/or teased.

  9. Treatments of video-game addiction: • Taking part in other activities such as sports, choir, drama or whatever your interests may be. • Take some time off playing video games and put them out of sight for a bit. This kind of addiction is treated like any other addiction. Hanging out with friends more outside of school. Busying yourself with schoolwork to stay ahead and keep good grades. • This does not mean that you can no longer play video games, it just simply means that you should cut down on the amount of time you play them and do other things instead.

  10. Facts A 2009 survey at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto shows that about 9,000 students in Grades 7 to 12 in Ontario suggested nearly 10 per cent get seven or more hours of "screen time" each day. Just over 10% reported a video gaming problem in the previous year. • This type of addiction is not an official addiction but research shows that about 8% of teens are affected by it. • “The same regions of the brain that are activated when craving occur in alcohol and drug addicts are also activated in video game addicts when they see images of computer games.”

  11. Bibliography • http://www.video-game-addiction.org/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari • http://www.techaddiction.ca/ • http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2010/09/13/f-videogames-addiction-health.html • http://www.techaddiction.ca/videogameaddiction_statistics.html

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