Academic Cultures

Primary research is a type of research in which a researcher will have to conduct themselves, for instance, surveys and interviews. This form of research is important to the academic cultures because they create and conducted their own experiment. The results from the experiment are their own fresh new findings that no one has tampered with.

The three academic cultures, we have learned throughout this semester are Humanities, Social Science and the Natural Sciences. The natural sciences have a focus that everything in the universe can be studied. Often times, scientists in the academic culture will create things that are not a part of the natural world. A few of the disciplines in this academic culture are, biology, math, chemistry, and engineering. Epistemology is the theory of while researching for my secondary research, many scientists have found that video games can actually benefit the person in many ways! For instance, scientist had conducted an experiment where they found that video games can benefit the gamer in spatial performance, reading skills, academic ability and self-esteem (Witt al. 2011). These characteristics can improve a person mental ability, especially reading, as it can help elementary schoolers improves their reading skill at a level they will enjoy.

When conducting any and all experiments, society will be your biggest critic. If I were to not debrief the participants about the study, I could come into legal trouble with the office of research integrity and perhaps the society.

In conclusion, my study focuses on whether video games can benefit you or be used against you. I was using my psychological background which falls under social sciences as an academic culture. In the future, I hope to be able to conduct my own actual experiment and be able to send it to the office of research