Temporal lobe

the brain is. For example, it is easier to check your phone while you’re eating rather than when you’re behind the wheel. Driving requires integration of various brain stimuli such as auditory, visual, need for motor skills and use of the frontal lobe for judgment and decision making, (livestrong website). In other words, driving in itself requires a lot from the brain processes and adding another thinking task (such as reading, typing, and keeping focus off of the road due to response to a…

Your driving your new car down the streets with pride of how your father gave it to you as a present on your birthday. Unless somebody else behind you driving too. Is trying to multitask by texting and driving. And BOOM your new car is damaged by an idiot who tried to be a multitasker. What is multitasking? When I hear the word multitasking I think about how we ourselves do something by adding one or more things into a task. A good example is of us teenagers listening to music while doing…

With today’s fast paced society we are able to watch and see how different people live their lives everyday. Some of us are not very concerned with keeping up with the rich and famous, instead there are people who are interested in the lives of people who are in someway underprivileged. With today’s prison system we are seeing how underprivileged criminals are, especially juvenile criminals who we are completely doing a disservice to by locking them up and throwing away the key so quickly…

Do you ever wonder what will teenagers do in order to avoid accidents? Does the teenager’s brains help them to avoid accidents? Or do they even know how to avoid accidents? According to Dobbs article, he shows teenagers from 14-17 years old are the biggest risk takers, but they use the same basic cognitive strategies that adults do, and they also reason their way through problems just as well as adults Dobb (2011). Since teenagers and adults use the same strategies. What are the other…

As spirituality becomes an increasingly popular tool in the service of mental health, the efficacy of spirituality on positive mental health must be examined. The question arises, not just whether or not spirituality is effective, but also “why or why not?” As a skeptic of spiritual practice, I have been curious about the effectiveness as well as the perceived effectiveness, and how those compare. Understanding this issue will be important in discovering which aspects of spirituality can be…

Why I chose this topic I chose to research Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because I have personal experience about the subject. While doing this study I had to question myself multiple times on my opinions about war and military actions. I have always known that war is something that will always be happening, and I am aware that killing is the number 1 thing that happens during war, on both sides, but seeing people die, and not being able to help them, is a leading cause of PTSD in military…

Brain Development Length The human body it’s in a constant change and development, physical and intellectual development from the conception until it dies. Besides the heart, the brain is considered the most important organ of our body. The brain starts its development from the nine to sixteen week of gestation and it continues growing and improving through the time and experiences. The brain development starts very fast in the infancy and becomes slower through the lifespan. In the first months…

For my paper, I opted to do observations of children in the KUYC as well as interviewing a mother on her children, one during their adolescent years and another in the middle childhood stage (The mother’s children are both past these stages, but we conducting the interview and the questions were answered in the frame of the son being 10 years old and the daughter 15 years old to see different aspects of their development.) These interviews showed me a number of developmental characteristics that…

Substance abuse has many contributing factors. Substance abuse is the excessive use of drugs and or alcohol. Many people don 't understand why abusers become so dependent on drugs. People who use drugs for a long time can change the structure and function of the brain(webmd). This leads to the impairment of a person 's self-control and the ability to make smart decisions(webmd). Ultimately making the user take more drugs. Using and abusing are two different matters. when someone is using drugs…

Augmentative and Alternative Communication, or AAC, is a major method of treatment for aphasia. This treatment allows the individual with aphasia to be a conversation partner and engage in communication that may have been limited before treatment. It is crucial with aphasia to begin fostering communication through AAC very early on in the treatment process. These AAC devices can include low-technology device or high-technology devices (Fried-Oken, Beukelman, & Hux, 2011). One type of AAC…