located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain. The amygdala have proven in research to play a primary role in things like decision making, memory, and emotional responses. This article describes different responses or habits and discusses why most of them are involuntary. I found this article very informative, though not incredibly interesting. The article was full the names of other articles or books that contain information about the part of the brain that controls reflex and logic. The fact listed
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reaction or an emotion identify by feelings of fear, nervousness, or distress that can arise from one's unconscious since a psychoanalyst believes that our unconscious govern our behaviors and feelings, and how emotional response from our past childhood experience affect our behavior. A cause of anxiety would be the response to an environment or situation that resembles one of our past childhood experience, and the childhood experiences could have resulted in being punished for that particular action
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Biological psychology is the branch of science that attempts to explain behavior in terms of biology. This is basically the study of the brain and how it causes or relates to behavior (Wickens 2005). The first people to realize that the brain was an organ of the mind were the Ancient Greeks. Plato (429-348 BC) said that the brain was the organ of reasoning. Aristotle believed that the heart served this particular function and the brain was there only to cool the blood. Galen believed that the heart
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Henry Gustav Molaison had a bilateral lobotomy of this region on hid brain which is responsible for memory. a. The hippocampus- small region by brain stem responsible for memory dealing with amnesia. 3. This type of amnesia takes away a persons memory from the time of an injury and backward. a. retrograde amnesia. 4. The phenomena of not remembering every bit of information because it would overwhelm ones brain is known as. a. Consolidation Matching: Encoding- organizes
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represented a natural and normal response at the extreme end of a response continuum based on the severity of the trauma. This response is the flight or fight survival mechanism gone haywire. The,flight or fight reaction is meant to protect a person from harm. However, in PTSD, this reaction is compromised or damaged. As a result people who have PTSD may feel stressed or frightened even when they’re no longer in danger. Researchers have learned that this response to a trauma is not solely based
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is impaired muscle caused by brain damage usually before, birth or after birth. Cerebral palsy affects young children the most. The injury occurs within the brain development that occurs through utero or soon after birth. The cerebral palsy affects the motor neuron and sensory neurons. Cerebral palsy has no cure for the damage that has been done to the brain. Cerebral palsy was considered a movement disorder associated with white matter injury. White matter is the brain and spinal cord which contains
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understand and explain behavior. Cognition, in the mental and inner sense, can only be measured by observing behavior patterns; inner states are not visible. 1.4 Explain the role of the brain in cognitive functions. The body relies on the brain to carry out all functions. The brain regulates and maintains bodily and cognitive functions. All mental processes begin in the brain and the brain is responsible for coordinating cognition. Cognitive functioning begins in the brain and occurs through various
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Chapter One: Introduction and Research Methods * Origins of Psychology: 1. PHILOSOPHY; concepts- 2. PHYSIOLOGY; brain and behavior- 3. WILHELM WUNDT; followed psych as a science- 4. EDWARD TICHENER; structuralism, take bare parts down and study each part-5. WILLIAM JAMES AND STUDENTS; functionalism, didn’t care why someone did something he wanted to know the reason for it—one student G. Stanley Hall was the first PHD in US- 6. SIGMUND FREUD; had theories and ideas of psych analysis- 7. JOHN WATSON;
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Nature vs. Nurture has always been the true question for everyone’s behavior or problems. Serial killers are both, born and created, because something in their childhood throws them off into the road of destruction, even though in their genetics they are fully capable of going into the wrong path. Environment influences their behavior, your surroundings also apart of who you are. Based on the findings of two law-abiding college professors, James Fallon and Adrian Raine, found out that serial killers
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language? What does it mean to say that language is generative? ✓ How do nature and nurture play a role in language? Know what the associated theories are: nativism, social pragmatics, and general cognitive processing. ✓ What are the two brain areas responsible for language? What happens with damage? ✓ What are the general trends in language development? ✓ What are some ways to test language comprehension early on? ✓ What are overextension and underextension? ✓ Know the
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