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= __Function(HOW DOES VIDEO GAMES ADDICTION WORK)__ =

**** 1-06-11 Julian AndresMedina R. **-** **SYNTHESISED INFORMATION** = = = = = = = = = With this information we can see how the addiction to video games works, in conlusion this is how it works ﻿ so with this you can see that it is very bad and also with this information you can think ways to prevent it and also how to stop it. this is a very important and interesant information! =

Kids play a brand new video game that their friends and stadistics recomend. Then they like the video game so much that they start replacing the social activity, the familliar activity, the sports, In conclusion they replace vital things that a kid should do each day for playing video games and they become addicts. Kids buy new video games and they play it so much that they cant controll these problem, They dont have controll over this videogames. And they start having a totall change on every aspect of their life. Their body. Their thinking. Their behaivour. Their clothes. Their notes. Their actitude. And they loose controll over their life. The game( VIRTUAL REALITY) controlls totally the kids life. And can corrupt the kid. I mean that the video game can show SEX OR VIOLENT scenes and the kid will never forget that. Video games also can teach BAD WORDS to the kids that he would teach to his friends and the mothers of those kids will not want that kid to be friend of his sons.

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= // Losing Focus? Play an [|Online Game] ! // = = For example, [|Zuma’s Revenge] stretches and challenges you mentally so that you can reach a goal within a certain period of time. The task of completing simple challenges makes you work your mind harder. = = But the benefits of a game don’t just stop there. Not only do you give your mind an extra workout, but completing tasks in fact allows you to become more optimistic, too. Game designer and researcher, Jane McGonigal, believes that gaming gives you an energized rush of energy and a realistic hope of success. = = Similarly, relationship expert Dr John Gray also affirms the use of games in his best-selling novel, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. He offers women the mind-boggling reason on why men retreat into their ‘caves’ when a real life problem arises: when in their ‘caves’, they spend time on their own by playing games so that they can solve other issues mentally. = = By winning games, they feel a sense of achievement and can then return to the current pressing problem at hand. = = This tried-and-tested theory definitely concludes that we should engage in games every now and then to reaffirm our confidence, and help us to focus on our real-life tasks better! = = In fact, research has also shown that involving oneself in mental exercise can reduce the effects of dementia. A study group from the School of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales in Australia discovered that individuals lowered the risks of dementia by 46 percent if they were involved in mentally stimulating activities. = = This is all the more reason to be involved in online games – they provide you with a priceless immunity that you could be thankful for in your later years. = = So the next time you are faced with a report or schoolwork to complete, spend about five minutes beforehand on a game of [|Plants Vs. Zombies], which trains you to multitask, or [|Bejeweled 2] , a stimulating and energizing game which will leave you wide awake and ready to solve any problem. = = You can be pretty sure that in no time, you’ll be achieving high scores in your games AND at work, too. =

Julian Andres Medina R.

=This article can cleary show that video games on computers can make you= =passioned about.=

= = =There are lots of games that are mensioned:=

=Zumas revenge: A frog that sends you balls of colors and you need to match 3 balls= =of the same colorsyou make a match and you get 50 points.= =You need to make a lot of concentration in this game to match= =The right colours.=

= = = = = = = = =Plants vs zombies:=

=This is a game is very concentrational game. The plants are powers that creates obstacles for zombies so they dont get to the plants. But acoring of what zombies weapons are: A grasshopper or a RUNNER ZOMBIE, You need to put your arsenal of weapons to stop them.= = = = =

= = = = =Bejeweled 2:=

=This game is called bejeweled 2. And it work like this:= =You make a line of 4 cristals and those 4 cristals disapear and you make them disapear and you needto get out of cristals as much less time as possible.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Julian Andres Medina R.= =

= Obsessively checking __ [|e-mail] __. Playing online games for 12 hours or more at a time. Placing more value on chat-room friends than real friends. Neglecting family, work and even personal health and hygiene. These are all symptoms of a new form of __ [|addiction] __ that has surfaced only in recent years: **computer addiction**. In this article, we'll learn about computer addiction, why it's a problem -- and why some doctors disagree about whether it exists at all. Creating a single definition for computer addiction is difficult because the term actually covers a wide spectrum of addictions. Few people are literally addicted to a __ [|computer] __ as a physical object. They become addicted to activities performed on a computer, like __ [|instant messaging] __, viewing Internet pornography, playing __ [|video games] __, checking e-mail and reading news articles. These activities are collectively referred to as **Computer Mediated Communication** (CMC). Computer addiction focused on __ [|Internet] __ use is often called **Internet Addiction Disorder** (IAD). The various types of computer addicts have different reasons for their habits. Obsessive chat room use or e-mailing might fill a void of loneliness, while excessive viewing of pornography might stem from relationship problems or childhood abuse. The matter is further complicated by the fact that a computer is a useful tool. It's not like__ [|heroin] __, for example -- there are many legitimate reasons why someone might spend hours using a computer.

by:juan diego barbosa ortiz. 30/5/11. = = = = = = = = = =

=prior knowledge: companies are selling each time more addictive games so kids wan't to play and depending on the number of chilren that pay for that game the put more prize so they win more.=

By: Julan Andres Medina R. =

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=__Video games work__ like this because kids wan't to get out of the real world= =Their responsabilityes, Their boring world, and from their life= =So they go to a virtual game and scaope from all this.= =And at first they do it with one, game but then they do it with= =two games and so on, and they start replacing vital needs for them= =like, eating, and there's when the addiction come.But also a reality= =is that since parents want to make their activities alone= =with no children teasing them so they put their childrenin front of a video game= =for him to entretain meanwhile parent's are doing their activityes.= = = =By; Julian Andres Medina R.=

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= =How does addiction work?= Addiction usually has a standardized process, regardless of the activity you have become addicted to. We say "activity" because addiction doesn't always deal with a substance. Actually, you can develop an addiction to having sex or going to the gym as well as to alcohol or cocaine. Check this out and learn what is the process to develop an addiction. It may help you understand what is happening to you, or your addict friend or relative. Last, but not least, it doesn't matter how deep you may have fallen into an addiction at this stage, there is always a way to get out of it.

The workings of addiction
1. Every addiction starts with a voluntary step. You smoke, eat, go gambling or to the gym probably because you were tired or stressed, or just because you wanted to do something different. So far, you just tried it out and liked the experience. You can simply go home and forget it. The next day, you continue with your daily tasks and that's it. 2. Soon, you decide to repeat the experience. Perhaps something stressing happened, maybe you just were in the mood to doing it again (as you liked the experience). You are not noticing it, but your brain is now releasing happiness hormones (yes, endorphins and others) while you are carrying out the activity you like (here onwards, we'll call it triggering activity). Thus, your body starts to relate both of them (the triggering activity and the sensation of happiness or relax you feel after carrying it out) as a relationship of cause and effect. Although you are still carrying out voluntary steps, you are starting to condition your mind and body towards an addiction. 3. As you liked the experience and it made you feel good, the activity now triggers a bio-psychological process in your body. So far, you are welcoming a new habit. 4. The next step is simple, as you carry out the triggering activity more frequently, your body soon gets used to the release of the happiness hormones mentioned above, and specially if you carry out the triggering activity every constant number of days or at constant hours. 5. Notwithstanding the fact you like the triggering activity, you soon notice you are not as happy as before with it. This is called tolerance, and it appears because you consciously foresee the sensation of happiness you are going to feel, and you body reacts delaying it. Gradually, you see yourself doing the triggering activity either more frequently or with more intensity. Now you have a vice. 6. Addiction, as we know it, ripens when you feel a need for the sensation of happiness more strongly than your ability to decide whether you want to do the activity or not. If you lose the capacity of controlling the activity, congratulations, you have an addiction. Now, how deep do you want to get into it? That depends on you.

How to fight an addiction
First of all, understanding it... then, facing it. Although addiction is not exclusively a behavioural pattern, as many substances change the chemistry of your brain enhancing the sensation of need described above, addictions are basically the same thing, regardless of its triggering event. An addiction is a developed dependence of both brain and body to your triggering activity. You have unconsciously conditioned your mind and body to relate your happiness with the triggering activity, and probably the triggering activity has helped to enhance that changing the chemistry of your brain). Once the addiction is set on your mind, a new process —the one which does not allow you to quit so easily— starts and goes as follows: + You get aware of your vice and you wish to quit, but you feel fear. I personally attribute this fear to two reasons: On the one hand, you know you are already attached to something that is negative for you; and you have already heard that quitting an addiction is both hard and painful. Your brain reacts: fearing pain, it enhance your sensation of attachment to the triggering activity. + In other occasions, you don't notice you haven't carried out the triggering activity in a while and you start missing it. You are right, this is usually called "withdrawal effect". What happens here is that you feel a strong sudden impulse to do the triggering activity again. Anxiety invades you and a obsession to repeat the activity pecks your brain, creating both stress and anxiety as you put off the activity. No brainer: as soon as you do it again, the stress finishes. + But why? In an addict, the brain is conditioned to relate happiness to the triggering substance or activity. So, when you see, smell, touch or just think about the triggering activity, your brain reacts instantly and gives the order to try to reach it... because you want to feel happy! This order is very strong, up to ten times what a non-addict can feel about the same thing. This is what makes you feel the strong urge to repeat your addictive behaviour. Soon you buy.

What to do
+ Stay away from places and things that may get you close or think about your triggering activity. Don't force yourself to stay away from it, just decide to spend your time in other things. + When the withdrawal effect strikes you, remember what you have read above. The sensation is up to ten times stronger than what a non-addict feels... but it is just that: a feeling, a sensation. It is still you who gives the commands in your life. Think about that, take a deep breath and wait until the anxiety goes away. You would have won a great battle if you do it. + Also understand that quitting may also bring you hunger, sadness and, in general, a sensation of being unbalanced or of having lost something. It is normal. You are in process of change. + Last, and probably the most important. Fight battle by battle, one by one. It doesn't matter if you have been an addict for years or if you have carried out the triggering activity a hundred thousand times before. That is past tense, history or whatever you want to call it. It doesn't matter if you fail a couple of times more or a couple of dozens. Just keep fighting and you'll get out. Again, fight battle by battle and soon you'll see you will start winning wars. + Tell your family and friends you have changed and ask them to support you. Very especially, ask them not to judge you if you fall again once or twice.

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It works like: Kids buy a videogame that is recomended by other friends, so they play it and they start replacing vital things like, eating, studing, sports, socialising. and thats when the addiction comes and this kid recomends this game to his friend and the friend gets addicted. AND ITS LIKE A CICLE.

By: Julian Andres Medina R.

16/05/2011 Alejandro Varela [] You may go to this link, its a very good video.

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Prior knowledge:

Children get very addicted by new video games this addiction causes very bad effects for the society

And this kids life.

Children can get mentally damage and they risk all what they want Also what is most affected is the relashion ship between that kid and the people that are on his side.

Their phisical state ruins and video games can damage a nervouse system.