Running Head: LEFT-BRAIN DOMINANCE IN RIGHT-HANDED PEOPLE 1 Left-Brain Dominance in Right-Handed People LEFT-BRAIN DOMINANCE IN RIGHT-HANDED PEOPLE 2 Abstract Certain human cognitive functions depend predominately on either the left or right hemisphere of the brain. This study attempted to investigate the role of left and right hemispheres in regard to language. A 19 year old, right-handed male was asked to talk while tapping a pencil
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disorders is brain tissue. One example of a disorder that effects brain tissue is Alzheimer's, this disease actually physically changes the brain in its entirety. The tissues of the brain start to break down due to nerve cell damage causing the size of the brain to shrink dramatically affecting almost all of its function. The deeper into the brain with this condition the more there are signs of tissue damage, the cortex shrivels up, the hippocampus shrinks which is the area of the brain that plays
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environment ( Nordqvist, C. 2009). Cognitive Psychology The second perspective of psychology is cognitive psychology this is a field of psychology that studies the development related to how people think including memory, reasoning and the ability to make a decision. The term was first used in 1967 by American psychologist “Ulric Neisser” in the book “Cognitive Psychology” (Cherry, K. 2013). Example: By watching a cooking show the information is processed through the brain which at later times, the same
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pscyology essay 1 chapter2: Brain And Behavior from the Beginning Healthy newborn babies sponge up information from their surroundings. All the while, their developing brains are sprouting billions of nerve cell connections, or synapses. The brain's "hardwiring" actually starts in the womb, directed by the growing fetus's genetic game plan acquired from both parents.At the ARS-funded Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center in Little Rock, researchers in the Brain Function Laboratory are studying how
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Stepanova, Henry, Younossi, Weinstein, Nader & Hunt, 2016). Another concern for working adults is sleep deprivation, chronic sleep deprivation affect the cognitive function which is related to working memory, alertness, attention to detail and decision making. The prefrontal cortex of the brain is the area responsible for complex cognitive processes, is mainly vulnerable to the effects of sleep deprivation, especially when planning and coordinating (Scott, Arslanian-Engoren & Engoren,
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Alzheimer’s Disease Tim Smith ITT Technical Institute GE-375 Dr. Robert Fahey April 12, 2012 Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a form of dementia, which is a loss of brain function (U.S., 2012). The disease gradually worsens over time affecting one’s thinking, memory and behavior. AD is the most common form of Alzheimer’s accounting for 50 to 80 percent of dementia cases (Alzheimer’s, 2012). Although one of the risk factors is old age (majority
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Cognitive Psychology Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology studies how people think. It also studies how people remember, perceive, and learn. It focuses on how humans store information. This fairly new branch of psychology is set up to establish ways to improve memory and increase the ability to make accurate decisions. It is also used in education to develop curriculum that facilitates learning (Cherry, n.d.). Understanding cognition has many implications. In education, it can improve
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activity (compared to non-insight) is dominant in the right hemisphere, although there is some but less activity in the left hemisphere. In addition, there is several active brain areas during insight problem solving; notably the frontal, pre-frontal and temporal regions, which include the anterior cingulated cortex; found to be a cognitive controller with a shifting mechanism; posterior cingulate cortex: an area that deals with semantics, and the anterior superior temporal gyrus: an area that deals with
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years old. Autism affects the processing of information in the brain through altering how the nerve cells and their synapses do connect as well as how they organize: the explanation of how this process takes place is not fully understood. There are two other autism spectrum disorders are PDD-NOS which is diagnosed when the full criteria for the other disorders fails to be met and Asperger syndrome which lacks delays in the cognitive development. Scientists have argued that Autism has a strong genetic
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external world. The belief that the highest good a person can do is self-sacrifice is a personal belief, and the drive to adhere to this belief is self-serving. To not adhere to such a personal belief would cause cognitive dissonance, and the many clever ways that humans avoid cognitive dissonance have been made evident (Chapanis & Chapanis, 1964). Gandhi preaches about detachment from the fruits of action in his translation of the Bhagavad Gita. Doing good works in service to others without attachment
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