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Hawkins 1 Taylor Hawkins Emilia Grant Inquiry Project Proposal March 20th, 2014 Project Summary My inquiry topic

is about violence displayed in video games and the effect on children and teen behavior. I was ultimately curious to see if there was a direct correlation between the two. I wanted to write about this topic mainly because I am a video game player. I also enjoy the video games that display violence in them. I have been playing video games since I can remember and I wondered if I had not grown up the way I did, would I have been a different person? What is difficult about my research would be finding credible sources that back up that violence displayed in video games does affect behavior. The sources all seem to have an agenda and finding the lit tlest piece of data reassures them that violent video games are destroying are youth as we speak. As far as challenges in the writing itself, I can see myself writing too much from my opinion before adding in sources. I will have to stop myself from doing this by adding the sources in first as a guide and then writing my opinion from there. I believe all the sources that I have acquired for this project are indeed secondary, as they are mostly science journals or books. The first source I have is supporting the idea that violence in video games desensitizes people thus making them more susceptible to violent behaviors. I want to use the experiment itself in order to support the idea that violent games equals violent behavior. The second source I used was about how violent games can lead to murders. In this article I plan to use the part

Hawkins 2 where the child psychologist, David Walsh, talks about how the part of the brain that controls impulse is still developing and when that part is exposed to violent games for hours the violence becomes a wired in impulse. The third source I used was explaining the possible positive benefits of video games. I plan to use from this article how it describes how prosocial video games promote prosocial behavior and even lower aggressive behaviors. The next couple sources I used say that violence in video games do not cause violent behavior, such as the article about how violence in games are not tied to the behavior in high risk youth. I plan to use from this article how it describes the almost cathartic effect of violent video games and how this can reduce aggressive behaviors, such as bullying. The fifth source I used was a TV show known as Bullshit. From this source I plan to use how they brought in experts that dispel the rumors of violence in video games being linked to violent behaviors. The sixth source I used was a book about deviant behaviors. From this source I plan to use the evidence that explains where the origin of deviant behavior begins and why we consider these behaviors to be deviant in the first place. All these sources connect by either supporting the idea that violence in video games cause violent behaviors or by dispelling this false rumor. I want the ultimate message of my paper to be that violence in games does not cause violent behaviors. There are so many other factors in play that cause violent behaviors and for people to act out on these violent thoughts and tendencies. I want people to see that a mentally normal person knows how to separate fantasy from reality, such as violent video games and what is acceptable behavior in todays society.

Hawkins 3 I dont have a lot of research to be done past this point, as the sources that I have found are awesome and I could write a long, credible paper, as I hope to be able to do.

Hawkins 4 Paper Outline I. Introduction A. B. II. Introduce the topic and the sources I have found State the stance against the argument

Source I A. Introduce the side for support the violent games cause violent behaviors B. C. Begin source that states the desensitization of violent games State opinion about this source

III.

Source II A. B. Begin source about development of prefrontal cortex State opinion about this source

IV.

Source III A. B. Begin source about prosocial behaviors Add in source about beneficial properties of video games in school C. State opinion about this source

V.

Source IV A. B. C. Begin source about cathartic effect of video games Back up source with science journal proving this State opinion about this source

VI.

Source V A. B. Describe video as brief and clear as possible Explain the part that describes about the argument against

Hawkins 5 topic C. VII. State opinion about this source

Source VI A. B. C. D. Describe the premise of the book Talk about origin of deviant behaviors Talk about why we find this behaviors deviant State opinion about this source

VIII.

Conclusion

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