...* The branch of psychology that studies the relationship between nervous system activity and behavior and mental events. * A new branch of neurosciences. * Makes use of the findings discovered by other branches of psychology. Brain consists of neurons and glia. Other branches of the neurosciences are 1. Biological psychiatry is interested in treatment of biological treatments of 2. Developmental neurobiology is interested in how the nervous system changes and develops 3. Neuroanatomy is interested in the structure of the nervous system and hw the different areas are connected to one and another 4. Neurochemistry is interested in how the neurons work and how they communicate with one another 5. Neurobiology is interested the structure and the mechanics of the nervous system. Biological psychology focuses on behavior (the observative behavior and the unobservative behavior) Biopsychology has six branches 1. Physiological psychology the study of neural mechanism of behavior through the manipulation of the nervous system in controlled experiments either surgically, electrically or chemically. 2. Psychopharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs on brain and behavior. Research may involve both humans and animals. 3. Neuropharmacology the study of behavioral deficits produced by brain damage in humans. Its an applied research 4. Psychophysiology the study of the relationship between physiological activity and psychological...
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...tips to help improve memory that you can use in your free time! 1. Make sure to get your daily recommended amount of rest. Your brain needs to recharge every night, this is one of the most important parts about improving your memory. If you do not give your mind a proper rest it will not have enough energy to remember and work as well the next day. The recommended amount of sleep for children is around 10 hours a night while for adults it is 8 hours a night. 2. Be sure to socialize regularly. One of the most important aspects to improving memory is to constantly be engaging with new and old friends. Creating memories and having conversations with peers forces your mind to constantly be on the spot as compared to an academic setting which is much more predictable. 3. Play memory games. Who said learning had to be boring? There are many different memory games out there that will test your memory while still allowing you to have fun. A good game to improve your memory is, The Extreme Memory Challenge by Dart NeuroScience ( President Kenneth Dart ). This game involves pictures of different people and names flashing periodically on the screen in front of you and having you try to remember the names of each picture after they have flashed on your computer screen for a couple of seconds. 4. Exercise. In order to jumpstart your brain you have to get the blood flowing. This can be as simple as taking a quick walk when you wake up or before you go to remember information...
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...in which the main character has had his memories altered by scientists using electrode caps. The article then goes into detail about how a new set of experiments, led by MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu in Susumu Tonegawa’s lab, shows that by using a stunning set of molecular neuroscience techniques. Scientists have captured specific memories in mice, altered them, and shown that the mice behave in accord with these new, false, implanted memories. The scientists needed a way of labeling neurons that were active during a specific experience, and a switch to make them work. It has been found that by using by using the molecule Channelrhodopsin, in already genetically modified mice. Scientists could see recent events that had been recorded to specific brain cells in those mice (Castro 2013). The article then states how with the use of doxycycline, the scientists were able to turn off the labeling or recording process of the experiment. This is important because the scientists were able to label memories in specific times and places. Once the scientists had labeled a memory to the mice, and were able to re-awaken that memory by using light that was shone onto the rodents brains. The scientists were able to (with the use of electrical shocks and a new setting) induce fear, making the mice believe that they had been shocked in a setting in which they really had not (Castro 2013). The article ends with the author discussing some positive outcomes of memory engineering...
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...Monique Sosa HLT 205 May 10, 2012 Dr. Roberts The Role of Eye Movements in E.M.D.R There are eight phases of treatment to E.M.D.R. throughout phases 4 through 6 of EMDR clients concentrate on their disturbing or desired occurrences at the same time as they attend to a dual attention stimulus. Eye movements dual attention stimulus are the most commonly used, but tapping, tactile stimulation, and auditory tones are used as well. These are generally offered in an alternating bilateral fashion – e.g., first to one ear, then the other, then the first ear, etc. It is believed that the dual attention component of EMDR aids information processing but, as with all methods of psychotherapy, the basic neurobiological motive for these results are unidentified even though some neurobiologists have suggested mechanisms of action. Presently there is research support for working memory philosophies and the direct response. A number of studies have suggested that the eye movement decreases emotional distress and memory intensity or enhance recall. Although eye movements are frequently thought of as its best distinct component, EMDR is not an easy procedure controlled by the practice of eye movements. It is a difficult psychotherapy, including many components that are reflected to add to treatment effects. Eye movements are used to hold the client’s attention to an external stimulus, while the client is concurrently concentrating on internal distressing material. Shapiro defines...
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...Lauren's Story: "Recovery Takes Courage" At only 21, Lauren has been through more than most people twice her age. She has shown so much courage and her story is so inspiring. I think other girls struggling with eating disorders or body image issues can learn a lot from her. From a young age, Lauren struggled with anorexia and bulimia. Her eating disorders became much worse in high school and college when her weight dropped to a dangerously low level. She isolated herself from the world because of her fear of being forced to eat. At it's worst point, Lauren's eating disorder became so bad the she was having significant memory loss and could barely walk. It had gotten so bad that her therapist told her if she didn't get help she would die. After hearing this she checked herself into a treatment center to get help for her eating disorders. She had to re-nourish her body which was just as physically painful as it was emotionally. Lauren also had to confront her struggles with body image and learn to love her body as it is. While in treatment, Lauren learned that being raped and emotionally abused as a child significantly contributed to her eating disorders. A year and a half after leaving treatment, Lauren still struggles with body image issues, but she has made huge process and she accepts her body as it is. She relies on her coping mechanisms to help her through and is bravely facing everything that comes her way. So, to tell you why she is courageous I think is because it takes...
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...6.867 Final Project: Comparing Machine Learning Methods for Detecting Facial Expressions Vickie Ye and Alexandr Wang Abstract is used in this project uses the approach described in [3]. Kazemi et. al. uses localized histograms of gradient orienIn this project, we compared di↵erent methods for facial ex- tation in a cascade of regressors that minimize squared error, pression recognition using images from a Kaggle dataset re- in which each regressor is learned through gradient boostleased as a part of an ICML-2013 workshop on representation ing. This approach is robust to geometric and photometric learning. We found that classification using features extracted transformations, and showed less than 5% error on the LFPW manually from facial images using principal component anal- dataset. ysis yielded on average 40% classification accuracy. Using fea- The facial landmarks (eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth) are intutures extracted by facial landmark detection, we received on itively the most expressive features in a face, and could also average 52% classification accuracy. However, when we used serve as good features for emotion classification. a convolutional neural network, we received 65% classification accuracy. 1.3 1 Support vector machines are widely used in classification problems, and is an optimization problem that can be solved in its dual form, Introduction Detecting facial expressions is an area of research within computer vision that has been studied...
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...Zoey is most comfortable verbally communicating when she is in the mood. She has a very strong personality and some days she doesn’t talk to anyone and some she articulate herself very well. I feel like she is most comfortable communicating when she feels she is in control of the situation or is feeling extremely happy or upset and her thoughts come out. For example when she is alone playing and is immersed into it she speaks to herself and says things such as “I did it”, or reenact sounds such as “Boom, Banngg!” Though Zoey attends daycare her comfort levels with communicating verbally is stronger with adults. Zoey asked me what I was holding and for me to write her name on the paper and continued the conversation with me after she finished...
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...The Fluidity of Neuroscience Gender Norms & Racial Bias in the Study of the Modern "Neuroscience" Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine and allied disciplines, philosophy, physics, and psychology. The term neurobiology is usually used interchangeably with the term neuroscience, although the former refers specifically to the biology of the nervous system, whereas the latter refers to the entire science of the nervous system. The scope of neuroscience has broadened to include different approaches used to study the molecular, cellular, developmental, structural, functional, evolutionary, computational, and medical aspects of the nervous system. The techniques used by neuroscientists have also expanded enormously, from molecular and cellular studies of individual nerve cells to imaging of sensory and motor tasks in the brain. Recent theoretical advances in neuroscience have also been aided by the study of neural networks. Given the increasing number of scientists who study the nervous system, several prominent neuroscience organizations have been formed to provide a forum to all neuroscientists and educators. For example, the International Brain Research Organization was founded in 1960, the International Society...
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...Ian Gilbert Words by Sylvia Plath is a powerful poem that strikes at the very meaning of words and their potential. At first glance, feelings of strength and energy wash over the reader. When reading it out loud its almost impossible not to picture an overdramatic actor clenching their right hand and looking up to the sky. The use of the word indefatigable makes this poem quite self evident in the power and emotion spewing from that word. The emotion throughout the poem is almost direct pain. This is shown immediately with the first word “Axes.” After reading it a few times this word is still the most striking because words are like axes. They can be very painful. This pain can also be seen in the lines “Wells like tears” meaning more pain caused from words. From this the reader can infer that Plath was probably recently struck down by words. The next striking visual comes from the use of sound and the way sound acts. “Echoes traveling off the center like horses” giving the reader a great sense of indirect onomatopoeia and a stunning visual. A rock dropping into water gives a similar visual with the use of circles, making another reference to the way sound can have an impact. The final three words of the poem sum up at least some of the meaning within the poem. “Govern a life.” This is very accurate for the majority of us. We try not to, but we live the majority of our lives according to what we hear people say about us and what we should do. All these things that she described...
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...The sin bin or Lucy’s heart I can see Lucy walking straight in my direction. She looks a little nervous, but focused on the same time. It has been a while since I have talked to her. It was before she became Bethan’s best friend. I miss her sometimes, but when I see her with Bethan, she is not the same Lucy I knew. She has changed a lot. I do not hope that she is pretending to be someone she is not. “Penny!” Lucy catches me in my way out of the door. “Oh. Hi Lucy” I am a bit confused. What does she want from me? “Please meet me down the subway after school” Lucy sounds nervous too. I cannot look her in the eyes, because she keeps looking in different directions. I can feel my face turning into a grimace you only see in a scary movie or something like that. I am not scared, but I think I look quite stupid or maybe just really choked. Now she hurries back to Bethan who is waiting for her at the other side of the schoolyard. It is all really confusing at that point. The time before my meeting with Lucy goes too slowly. I cannot wait to see what she wants from me. After school I walk down the subway to look for Lucy, but I cannot find her. Is this just a stupid joke? I cannot stop thinking that, until she appears out of nowhere. She comes straight to me with no sense of hesitation. Suddenly her hand hits my face, and a pain spreads through my whole body. I do not think it is just physic pain, because it really hurts that she could do that. The hitting part just reminds me of...
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...Abortion: Death of an Innocent Abortion is a topic that is frequently discussed about and fought over as being truly immoral or moral thing to do. Many people view abortion as a way to get out of a sticky situation or merely as an option to get rid of something that they don’t need in their lives at the moment. Abortion is the procedure that directly goes into the mother’s stomach and kills the fetus from and inside and then is retrieve and thrown away. This procedure is just absolutely immoral and is killing an innocent unborn child. They say that the fetus is not alive until it is fully grown but in fact it still has a heartbeat and everything that makes it truly a living being. Abortion doctors claims that it is not living and nothing is wrong with killing it. I believe that abortion is wrong and should be outlawed in the state of California because the mother is affected emotionally and physically, it could endanger the woman’s body, and it is act of murder to an innocent unborn child. First I believe that abortion is wrong and should be outlawed in the state of California because the mother is affected emotionally and physically. Abortion takes a lot out of the mother during and after the procedure. While in the procedure the mother goes through physical pain when the doctor directly cuts the fetus from the mother and pulls it out to be merely thrown away like waste. There are possibilities that the doctor could miss during the procedure and damage or scar something...
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...Journal #1 My speech wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it could have been better if I put more time into getting more information from my partner. The body paragraphs needed to give more information and go into more detail. Although it wasn’t that bad of a speech giving the thought that we met up for about thirty minutes. Back in high school when someone was giving a speech, we, the audience always tried to make them laugh, or simply just didn’t pay attention to the speaker and did something else. Now the audience was paying attention and being respectful which calmed me down when giving my speech. As the speaker I needed to be more enthusiastic while giving my speech, because how is the audience going to be interested if I don’t even seem interested. I noticed very few people glancing at their phones or just with a blank look in their face; this made me relax a little more for some reason. Even though I could have had more information and gone more into detail, my speech did flow from the thesis statement to my conclusion paragraph. I was getting more nervous as the names kept getting closer to mine, once my partner Aldo, brought me up when he gave his speech, which calmed my nervousness down a bit because it wasn’t that bad being in front of the class and having everyone’s eyes looking at you. Once my turn came to speak, I took deep breaths as I made my way to the front of the classroom, and once there I paused, and took one last deep breath, and then...
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...Brilliant Public Speaking XXXXXXXXXXX BCOM 275 June 30th, 2014 Dr. Rankin Brilliant Public Speaking After watching the “Brilliant Speaking Video”, I believe that I have so much more knowledge when it comes to speaking. I felt as if I kind of built more confidence especially with the tips that I’ve learned and never paid attention to before until I seen the video in this week’s chapter. In this week’s chapter, the video related to how language is important. Connecting with your audience emotionally is something that can persuade your audience on your beliefs. The video related to the chapter as to the benefits that you could receive from speaking. Being able to speak to people and make an impact by having them listen and believe in what you are saying and you have grabbed there attention is a start for a brilliant speaker. One of the best practices that were discussed in the video in which was more relevant to me was the timing. At times, I tend to make things too long and not just enough. This can make my speech very boring and uninteresting especially when trying to keep the audience’s attention. Learning to keep the audience interested by throwing a little sense of humor is definitely something that I will take with me. I believe that putting my emotions into some things will also benefit me in the end because that’s a way that the audience can connect with me. Another thing that interested me was staying hydrated. Drinking lots water the night before a speech...
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...Question 1 Why is beer flavor important to Coors' profitability? People are ready to accept and try new flavors. The companies are in high competition to make new flavors to fulfil the customer needs and satisfaction. Most of the companies are making new flavors considering the customer trend and taste. Drinker’s choice depends on various factors, including mood, venue and occasion. Coors goal is to ensure that the customer select the Coors brand no matter what the circumstances. To be the customer’s choice brand, Coors needs to be creative and anticipate customer changing moods. There are different flavors and each have a particular flavor and these are detected through a panel tests. As this test take time, to achieve the customer satisfaction Coors have to understand the beer flavor based chemical composition. This may help to satisfy the customer taste and may help to increase the profitability of the firm. The people are ready to accept the new products in the market if it is reasonable and affordable price with the quality. Question 2 What is the objective of the neural network used at Coors? Neural networks was used to create a link between chemical composition and sensory analysis. The neural network was designed to understand the relationship between the input and output. The neural network consists of a MLP architecture with two hidden layers. Data were normalized within the network and enabling comparison between the results for the various sensory outputs....
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...the experimenters during the games. Findings: * Participants in the placebo group were likely to show less trust after feedback on betrayal They invested less. Participants in the oxytocin group continued to investr a similar rates after receiving feedback ob a breach of trust * The fMRI scans showed decreases in response in the amygdala and the caudate nucleus. The amygdala is involved in emotional processing and has many oxytocin receptors. The caudate nucleus is associated with learning and memory and plays a role in reward-related response and learning to trust. Conclusion: * Oxytocin could explain why people are able to restore trust and forgive in long term relationships * Scanner research is merely mapping brain activity but nothing definite can be said about what it readlly means at this point in...
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