Video Games Addiction?

According to the article, "Video Game Addiction a Real Problem, study finds", out of 45 million children ages 8-18 in the US:

• 88% of them are addicted to video game playing
• 3 million of the children play video games
• 3 million of the children are addicted to video game playing
• 45 million of the children skip their homework and lie

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According to the article, the researcher did this study because

• he was concerned about the video-game habits of young people
• he had children who always played video games
• he doubted parents' claims about their children's video game addiction
• he was paid to do the study by a video-game company

The statement which best describes this article is

• a review of a research study on the video-gaming habits of students
• a review of types of video games and their impact on the mind
• a review of parental attitudes towards video gaming habits of young people
• a review of the 11 symptoms diagnosing pathological gaming

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One can infer from this article that

• increased video-game playing leads to doing better in school
• increased video-game playing results in improved parent/teen relationships
• increased video-gaming playing can cause teens to skip their chores
• smart teens play video games

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From the passage, one can conclude that video-gaming among young people

• provides life skills for coping in life
• can help them become responsible citizens
• will lead to incarceration
• can become expensive and time-consuming

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According to the article, the study concludes that

• 1 out of ten children experience video game addiction
• 10% of children experience video game addiction
• 8.5 % of youths experience video game addiction
• 8 out of 10 children play video games in the US

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This article was written by

• the Iowa State University
• Donna St. George
• Douglas Gentile
• a 2007 Harris Poll survey

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The word "histrionics" in paragraph 6 means

• devotion
• judgement
• influence
• over-reaction

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Three of the symptoms of pathological gaming addiction include:

• dreaming about video game playing, irritability when play is scaled back, and lying about how much time one has played
• irritability when play is scaled back, spending more money and time on video games to get the same reward, and skipping chores or homework to play
• irritability when play is scaled back, playing the same game over and over and lying about playing time
• dreaming about video game playing, playing after midnight on a school night, and spending more time and money over time on video game playing

The main idea of the article is that

• parents and children need to be educated about how to play video games
• children's video-gaming habits can lead to behavior problems
• the researcher did a good job finding conclusions that contradicted his thesis
• 8.5% of children who play video games are addicted 

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