According to J. Adam Fenster, playing computer games can improve your general skills like multi – tasking, driving, reading small print, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town. I know that computer games especially for parents had a bad impression in terms of their child having a low academic performance in college but with the help of researchers and authors of the journal “Current Biology” proved that computer games can also have a positive effect of how students perform in college like making the right decision fast and even though not accurate but almost all of the time right. They also gave an experiment whether their assumption is correct and accurate about students playing fast – paced games affect their decision making. The researches gathered 50 participants and will play for 40 hours in this experiment, the first 25 participants played “Call of Duty” which is a fast – paced game and the other 25 participants played “The Sims” which is a slow – paced strategy game. After playing, they made them answer a lot of question in terms of decision making, whether you believe it or not those who played “Call of Duty” answered 25% faster than those who played “The Sims” with the same correct answers. In line with the results that we have gathered most of the students in DLSU performed well with their studies and no doubt that computer games allow students to perform well in school giving us an average of 2.5 GPA at the end of the term.
Someone in our survey answered that he had this coming like playing computer gaming would increase his skills with decision making, critical thinking, and making better analysis so which i conclude that people also think in a different way such that gaming can be also good someway, somehow.
Computer Games Benefits and its Positive Effects
10 FLM / November 2013