Get in the Zone: The Psychology of Video Game Design

The author includes the section title “Challenge” to show —

• why video games require skill in order to be finished

• why people try to quickly complete the challenges in a video game

• why people purchase so many different types of video games

• why video games increase in difficulty as players become more skilled

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The author includes the detail about micro-rewards in paragraph 13 to explain —

• how gamers like to focus on the ultimate goal at all times

• how focus helps to create flow for gamers

• how rewards from small tasks lead to accomplishing big goals

• how the brain produces the chemical dopamine

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Which idea does the information in the section titled “Psychological Edge” support?

• Video games without defined endings are more fun to play.

• Video games are better when played with friends.

• Customize the difficulty of a video game to enjoy it more.

• Always try to play video games on the most challenging setting.

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In paragraph 3, the author introduces the idea of “flow” in order to ____________

• describe a strategy used by successful players of video games

• explain why some video games are better than others

• show how creators of video games work together

• encourage readers to try different kinds of video games

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In paragraph 3, the author introduces the idea of “flow” in order to ____________

• encourage readers to try different kinds of video games

• explain why some video games are better than others

• show how creators of video games work together

• describe a strategy used by successful players of video games

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Select a sentence below that SHOULD NOT be included in a summary about the article?

• To keep video game players in the zone, the game must have challenges, keep the player's focus, and provide them with rewards.

• In the article, the author describes how video games with dragons are often difficult to beat.

• One-way video game players become immersed in a game is with challenges that are not too easy or too difficult.

• When a player is in a state of flow, they don't have to think about what they're doing because it becomes automatic.

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Read the inference below. Good Video Games require more than just a fun adventure and unique characters. Which two pieces of evidence from the article support the inference?

• In order to keep us in the zone, games have to increase their level of difficulty at precisely the same rate at which players improve their level of skill.

• That's because focus, our ability to pay attention, is like a flashlight beam-it can only shine on  one or two things at a time

• Fighting the dragon should be fun, but we need a reason to keep trying too.

• the best designers keep us in the zone by steering our attention, like movie directors, from one challenge to the next-we're simply along for the ride.

• Imagine your brain is like a backpack. If it's filled to the top with just the skills required for the game, there's no room left for any distractions. 

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According to the section called CHALLENGE, why do players of video games often give up?

• The game requires too much button pressing in complicated patterns

• The game has been designed to be impossible to win.

• The game contains too much information that is not really important.

• The game requires concentration but does not offer much enjoyment.

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The author includes the section subheading “Challenge” to show...

• why video games require skill in order to be finished

• why people try to complete tasks in a video game as quickly as possible

• why people purchase so many different types of video games

• why video games increase in difficulty as players become more skilled

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The author includes the detail about micro-rewards in paragraph 13 to explain...

• how game designers reward players for reaching the ultimate goal

• how focus helps to create flow for gamers

• how rewards for small tasks lead to accomplishing big goals

• how the brain produces the chemical dopamine

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