The first chapter that I chose is chapter 2, The Brain and Behavior. This chapter focuses on the nervous system, structures of the brain and their functions, genetics and behavior, and more about how the brain works.
The nervous system is talked about in this chapter as “the body’s electrochemical communication circuitry”. Within this subtopic, it talks about pathways and divisions in the nervous system. It also talks about neurons in the nervous system, which are the things that handle the information-processing function. Glial cells are the cells found in the nervous system, and glial cells keep neurons running smoothly. The next discussed topic in this chapter is Structures of the Brain and Their Functions. This topic mainly discuses how …show more content…
The nature of memory starts with three key processes, which are encoding, storage, and retrieval. These three aspects are the steps to memorizing something, and how we are able to memorize something so long down the road from now. Encoding is just getting the information into memory storage. Storage is retaining information over time. Lastly, retrieval is taking information out of storage, like when we remember it. There are many different types of memory, and some are a bigger topic that others, but the main ones are, sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, explicit memory, semantic memory, implicit memory, and procedural memory. All of these types of memory are just different types on how much information is held, and what made that individual hold that specific memory. For example, procedural memory is just memory of skills, where you know how to do something because you have done it before. Whereas explicit memory is the recollection of facts that have been learned prior.
Forgetting memories is another topic within this chapter. It talks about how and why the last two key processes in memory fail; encoding failure and retrieval failure. There are about four different theories or perspectives listed in the text about forgetting, these are the interference theory, the decay theory, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, and the retrospective memory. With all of these perspectives there are different reasons …show more content…
There are many “types” of thinking, for example some are, problem solving, reasoning and decision-making, and thinking critically and creatively. I chose this topic because intelligence, language, and thinking are all things that are critical to our lives. Without intelligence we wouldn’t know what to do, without language we wouldn’t be able to communicate, and without thinking we wouldn’t really even be living. These things are very interesting to learn more in depth about. Yes, I knew about language, thinking, and intelligence before, and some people might think, “Why am I having to read about this?”, but once I started reading I found out how much more in depth a topic like this can go. Some examples of thinking, intelligence, and language are when you are asked to figure something out that isn’t simple to figure out. You are thinking of a way to solve the problem with your intelligence, or the things you know about the situation and what might help. Other things are like when you are going to talk to someone that doesn’t speak the same language as you, you might make signals to get the point
The nervous system is talked about in this chapter as “the body’s electrochemical communication circuitry”. Within this subtopic, it talks about pathways and divisions in the nervous system. It also talks about neurons in the nervous system, which are the things that handle the information-processing function. Glial cells are the cells found in the nervous system, and glial cells keep neurons running smoothly. The next discussed topic in this chapter is Structures of the Brain and Their Functions. This topic mainly discuses how …show more content…
The nature of memory starts with three key processes, which are encoding, storage, and retrieval. These three aspects are the steps to memorizing something, and how we are able to memorize something so long down the road from now. Encoding is just getting the information into memory storage. Storage is retaining information over time. Lastly, retrieval is taking information out of storage, like when we remember it. There are many different types of memory, and some are a bigger topic that others, but the main ones are, sensory memory, short-term memory, long-term memory, explicit memory, semantic memory, implicit memory, and procedural memory. All of these types of memory are just different types on how much information is held, and what made that individual hold that specific memory. For example, procedural memory is just memory of skills, where you know how to do something because you have done it before. Whereas explicit memory is the recollection of facts that have been learned prior.
Forgetting memories is another topic within this chapter. It talks about how and why the last two key processes in memory fail; encoding failure and retrieval failure. There are about four different theories or perspectives listed in the text about forgetting, these are the interference theory, the decay theory, the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon, and the retrospective memory. With all of these perspectives there are different reasons …show more content…
There are many “types” of thinking, for example some are, problem solving, reasoning and decision-making, and thinking critically and creatively. I chose this topic because intelligence, language, and thinking are all things that are critical to our lives. Without intelligence we wouldn’t know what to do, without language we wouldn’t be able to communicate, and without thinking we wouldn’t really even be living. These things are very interesting to learn more in depth about. Yes, I knew about language, thinking, and intelligence before, and some people might think, “Why am I having to read about this?”, but once I started reading I found out how much more in depth a topic like this can go. Some examples of thinking, intelligence, and language are when you are asked to figure something out that isn’t simple to figure out. You are thinking of a way to solve the problem with your intelligence, or the things you know about the situation and what might help. Other things are like when you are going to talk to someone that doesn’t speak the same language as you, you might make signals to get the point