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1-Training and Improvement of Physical and Mental Abilities

Video games can provide benefits such as improving visual attention, task-switching abilities, and mental rotation skills. They also have therapeutic uses in helping people with mobility or social issues, and can be used as an engaging learning tool for students. Additionally, video games foster prosocial values like teamwork, empathy, and positive self-esteem through overcoming challenges.

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1-Training and Improvement of Physical and Mental Abilities

Video games can provide benefits such as improving visual attention, task-switching abilities, and mental rotation skills. They also have therapeutic uses in helping people with mobility or social issues, and can be used as an engaging learning tool for students. Additionally, video games foster prosocial values like teamwork, empathy, and positive self-esteem through overcoming challenges.

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1- Training and improvement of physical and mental abilities

It has been proven in some studies that if we play video games daily, we can improve
our visual attention, be more efficient in changing tasks, be faster in tasks where we
have to perform a visual search or discriminate objects by their shape / color.

Also among other benefits, it contributes more effectiveness in the follow-up of


multiple objectives (Green and Bavelier, 2003).

Other researchers have conducted training studies corroborating that the practice of
video games also improves the execution of divided tasks and mental rotation (De lisi
and Wolford, 2003 quoted in Salguero, 2009).

2- It has therapeutic uses


Video games can be used in people who have both physical and mental problems. As for
example in people who present problems of mobility in the arms, or that they find it
difficult to be related; as is the case of people with autism .

It has also been used in a rehabilitative way in people who present problems of care ,
among others.

3- Use as didactic means


Video games can be a means of learning for people who use it because it is a different
context and more playful. They are therefore a good means of motivation for children
and young people , as well as for children who have learning difficulties or are even at
risk.

Thanks to this means students can be motivated to learn by creating fun feelings
(Salguero, 2009).

4. Fosters positive values


The games of consoles and computers also promote values such as solidarity, friendship,
cohesion and a sense of belonging to a group. It is important for parents to take
advantage of these benefits to improve family relationships (Reyes-Hernández et al.
2012, Reyes-Hernandez, 2014).

5- Use as leisure and entertainment


We need to get distracted so we do not feel stressed in our day to day or just to fight the
daily boredom. For this reason, video games are a great means of entertainment because
of the large number of realities they present (González, 2010 in Reyes-Hernández et al.,
2014).

6- Develop empathy
Since there are a multitude of group games, players have to make decisions and know
that they can have consequences, both positive and negative, on the other players in the
game. Therefore, it is a means that facilitates the development of empathy (Levine,
2009 Reyes-Hernández et al., 2014).

7- Increase the sense of competence and self-esteem


The use of video games also creates feelings of self-esteem and competition in players
game after game. As you overcome the different challenges and levels, you feel better
about yourself and able to meet the following objectives.

8- Encourage teamwork
In team games, players will also develop group work skills as they sometimes have to
be united to overcome some challenge.

In addition, it also allows them to develop other abilities such as quick thinking to act
satisfactorily in the face of problems presented to them or even work under pressure to
avoid losing the game.

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