Interacting with video
By: edited by Patricia M. Greenfield and Rodney R. Cocking.
Contributors: Greenfield, Patricia Marks.; Cocking, Rodney R.
Series: Advances in applied developmental psychology ;; vol. 11; Advances in applied developmental psychology (1993) ;; v. 11.
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp.; Praeger
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Norwood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Mass media and children; Television and children; Video games -- Psychological aspects; Interactive video -- Psychological aspects; Child psychology; Child Development; Video Games -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Violence, gender, and video. Effects of interactive entertainment technologies on children's development / Rodney R. Cocking and Patricia M. Greenfield. Mediated messages: gender, class, and cosmos in home video games / Christine Ward Gailey. Contextualizing video game violence: from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 to Mortal Kombat 2 / Marsha Kinder. Gender differences in children's constructions of video games / Yasmin B. Kafai. Impact of virtual reality on young adults' physiological arousal and aggressive thoughts: interaction versus observation / Sandra L. Calvert and Siu-Lan Tan; title: Pt. 2. Cognitive effects of video games. Video games as cultural artifacts / Patricia M. Greenfield. Effect of video game practice on spatial skills in girls and boys / Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia M. Greenfield. Effects of video game playing on measures of spatial performance: gender effects in late adolescence /  Lynn Okagaki and Peter A. Frensch. Cognitive socialization by computer games in two cultures: inductive discovery or mastery of an iconic code? / Patricia M. Greenfield, Luigia Camaioni ... [et al.]. Two-dimensional representation of movement through three-dimensional space: the role of video game expertise / Patricia M. Greenfield, Craig Brannon, and David Lohr. Action video games and informal education: effects on strategies for dividing visual attention / Patricia M. Greenfield, Patricia deWinstanley ... [et al.]