Literature Review

Anderson and Dill 2000 states that video game violence affects the mind of those who play them and that it can cause the user to become aggressive. He states this has short and long term difficulties. Short term it causes a “burst” of aggression by increasing the users heart rate, etc.

Radford 2005 states that although video games are indeed violent, so are many television programs such as “C.S.I” and “The sopranos” and this is because violence and murder makes for great entertainment for the world. He also states that something is always being blamed for people becoming violent, being it from singers to old plays.

Ryan 2006 States that it is not the violence which brings people to play video games but the thrill that they are accomplishing something that would otherwise be impossible in the real world. He states that for a gamer to have fun no violence is required. He tested this by changing a game from a game where you kill opponents with a gun, to “tagging” them with a ball of light and sending them to their home base. In each instance the player had the same amount of fun.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths:

Working Solo
Willing to learn
Good understanding of basic IT programs
If find something interesting will explore it more thoroughly
Like to see a project finished
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Weaknesses:
If not kept interested, can become side tracked
Not good with working in groups
Sometimes only do the bare minimum
Sometimes need to be motivated to get work done
Can sometimes require a "Push" to talk
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Opportunity's:
To get a good occupation
To meet new interesting people
To expand knowledge
To learn useful skills
To gain group working skills
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Threats:
Stress
Insomniac
Procrastinating

Learning Skills

Result of Vark questionare:
After taking the VARK (Visual Aural Read/Write Kinesthetic) questionnaire i ended up with the results of...

Visual learning 5 marks
Aural 3 Marks
Read/Write 6 Marks
Kinesthetic 7 Marks


What type of learner i am identified as:
I am identified as a Kinesthetic learner primarily and a read/write secondly
So primarily i learn by doing things, for projects such as coding this means that i can combine the kinesthetic and the read/write at the same time.


Does this surprise me?
This comes as not much of a suprise, i find that doing something will allow me to learn how to work something in a better way than to just hear it or listen to how it is done.


Which style is my least favorite?
Aural this is the style that is based around listening to somebody explain how it is done.

What could i do to enhance this learning Style:
To enhance this learning style i could attempt to listen more and take more notes, this would hopefully allow me to take more in.