AUTONOMIC RESPONSE AND BEHAVIORAL PERFORMANCE OF AVID VIDEO GAME PLAYERS ON A DECISION-MAKING TASK A Thesis
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.........................................................................................v Introduction.....................................................................................1 Video Game „Addiction‟.............................................................1 Similarities between Video Gaming and Gambling..............................1 Video Gaming..........................................................................2 Demographics of Video Game Players....................................2 Game Type.....................................................................3 Autonomic Responses to Video Games....................................4 Video Games and Aggression...............................................5 Consequences of Avid Gaming.............................................5 Engagement and Addiction..................................................7 Pathological Gambling................................................................9 Somatic Markers.......................................................................10 The Iowa Gambling Task...................................................11 Iowa Gambling Task and Pathological Gambling........................12 Autonomic Responses..................................................................13 Anticipatory Skin Conductance Response..................................14 Heart Rate.......................................................................15 Current Study.............................................................................16 Method.............................................................................................18 Participants................................................................................18 MineHunter................................................................................19 Data Acquisition..........................................................................21 Dependent Variables.....................................................................22 Total Number of Advantageous Selection....................................22 Average Number of Probes Sent to Planet A ...............................23 Percentage of Probes Sent to Planet A .........................................23 Selection of Planet A at a Rate above Chance ..............................23 Feature Awareness Score........................................................24 Continuous Selection of Only Mountains....................................24 Skin Conductance Response....................................................25 Heart Rate ........................................................................26 Statistical Analysis........................................................................26 Post-Hoc Examination....................................................................27 Alternate Time Periods to Examine Physiological Measures.............27 Alternative Definitions for Gaming Groups................................27 Somatic Marker Groups........................................................27
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