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In praise of video games: Why World of Warcraft is good for you | The Economist - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "The scientists conclude that video-game players develop an enhanced sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this may help with activities such as multitasking, driving, reading small print, navigation and keeping track of friends or children in a crowd."
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Gamasutra - Features - Psychology is Fun - 0 views

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  • oundationally, behaviorism offers us five foundational ingredients for a healthy and balanced reward schedule. Firstly, continuous reinforcement operates just as it sounds. We reinforce a player every single time they perform the behaviors that we'd like to see. We may even reinforce behaviors that get incrementally closer to what we'd like to see, what behaviorists call shaping.
  • Foundationally, behaviorism offers us five foundational ingredients for a healthy and balanced reward schedule. Firstly, continuous reinforcement operates just as it sounds. We reinforce a player every single time they perform the behaviors that we'd like to see. We may even reinforce behaviors that get incrementally closer to what we'd like to see, what behaviorists call shaping.
  • World of Warcraft, regardless of race or class selected. Learn to walk properly, kill efficiently, use skills, loot, sell, etc., and there's no dearth of praise, experience, and cash value. Yet, continuous reinforcement is the first to wear off, because players immediately notice once you've staunched the flow of reward.
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  • fixed ratios, or fixed intervals, rewarding only after a set number of correct responses, or rewarding after a set amount of time, respectively.
  • compound reward schedules
  • until there's an extremity-themed reward at the tail end, behaviorism also calls this a chain
  • eeding concurrent reward schedules. They let our brain pick and choose the best way to reward itself. The key to generating fun in the brain of the player is to cater to them. They should always have options for how they want to stimulate themselves.
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      anonymous on 08 Nov 10
       
      the pleasure principle - the design and characteristics of the reward, the pleaure and/or function
  • dopamine, has been shown to have less to do with pleasure than with appetite, or "seeking."
  • anonymous on 08 Nov 10
     
    "Pleasure first, and then, excuse from pain, shape every move that we will ever make -- so say the behaviorists"
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