Positive effects of Video games

Question 1

Who conducted research

Answer 1

Whitacker and Bushman
Gentille et al
Mellacker et al

Question 2

What was Whitacker’s and Bushans’s procedure?

Answer 2

Had participant play violent, neutral of relaxing video games. Then asked them to sharpen pencils for the researchers next experiment.

Question 3

What did Whitacker and Bushman find?

Answer 3

Participants who played relaxing video games sharpened more pencils than the other two conditions.
Participants who played relaxing video games rated themselves happier and more positive on mood questionnaire.

Question 4

What did Gentille et al?

Answer 4

To correlation between amount of video games with PSB played at time 1 and real life PSB at time 2 was greater than the two variables at time 1.

Question 5

What did Mellacker et al find?

Answer 5

Playing active bowling game increased calorie expenditure by 98% than normal level
Playing active running game increased calories expenditure by 451%