Since the introduction of video games, youngsters have felt attracted to them. Youngsters spend many hours playing computer-generated games. / The purpose of this study was to determine the elements that make computer-generated games very attractive as well as the ones that are not attractive to the students and to develop a descriptive model that examines the relationship between the strategies the students used when playing video games and their cognitive styles. / The research investigated the use of two probabilistic video games (The Factory and Tetris) and two deterministic ones (Super Mario Brothers III and OutNumbered). The participants were four sixth grade girls. They were observed and video taped while playing video games. Also, they took two tests: Flags Test, for spatial visualization and GEFT for field dependence/independence. / A relationship was found between field dependence/independent cognitive style and the way the informants played games that have some kind of disembedding, like Tetris and The Factory. Also, there was a close relationship between the way the participants played video games that contain spatial-visualization components and their scores on the Flags Test scores. / This research found nine (9) elements the youngsters were attracted to in video game playing. Those nine elements were: (1) the active control the children have over the task they are doing, (2) a scoring system to provide an instant feedback, (3) attractive graphics, (4) sense of adventure, (5) continuous action, (6) absence of school-like environment, (7) the presence of a character with which to identify, (8) the absence of right answers, and (9) challenging situations every time they play. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-07, Section: A, page: 1807. / Major Professor: Janice Flake. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77186 |
| Contributors | Dreyfous, Ricardo Hipolis., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 163 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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