Method The participants were 211 UTEP students enrolled in Psychology 3101. Participation was requested of the students to obtain data in order to write the final paper for this PSYC 3101 class. The participants were also asked to take notes during the experiment. There was no participants excluded from the study.…
How much of our life do we really have control over? This topic is covered in The Magic of the Unconscious: Automatic Brain which contemplates just how much humans are actually aware of and how much we genuinely decide. The video goes into an in-depth analysis of the automatic brain. It shows just how complicated the many processes the human brain goes through each day, in fact at every second. Humans are immensely unaware of how powerful and controlling the automatic brain is.…
Marsha McMillen Unit 2 Psychology Assignment My personal feelings about regulating the volume on earbuds and earphones, I think it is a good idea, I am a grandmother of two older grandsons and when they were in high school, they would listen to their walk men with the volume so high that I could hear the music across the room. I was constantly telling them to turn the volume down, but they never listen to me at all. Sometimes I think that they have some hearing loss today, because when you speak to them they act as if they do not hear you.…
The mind-body problem is a very unique problem. Having consciousness is what makes this problem so difficult. Without having consciousness, the mind-body problem would be much simpler and less interesting. In fact, most reductionist theories don’t even try to explain this problem. Concerning consciousness, it’s difficult to provide evidence of it…
Answering the Checklist Questions: The Critical Decisions 1. Scale of measurement? Both the F and the A-S scales are considered to be interval measures distributed normally in the population. Use Fig. 10.…
I chose to read An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison. Before taking this class, I only knew a few things about bipolar disorder. Most of what I had learned about bipolar had come from Google searches in wondering if I too suffered from the disorder because of it being prevalent within my family on my absent father’s side. What I learned from Google was that bipolar is a disorder that can cause people to have mood swings, there were two different types of bipolar, and that the drug lithium could be used to treat this disorder. Some of the things that I had learned from the textbook were the differences between bipolar I and II, the diagnostic criteria involved in bipolar disorder, and why bipolar occurs.…
The Mind at Work, written by Mike Rose is a story about day-to-day jobs that people partake in for a living, his main purpose of this story was to make people aware of the need to take notice of forms of intelligence that have not been tested through IQ tests and bring various things together like how the brain and hand can not be separated, they work dynamically. In this essay, I will go over the key points that I thought Rose wanted his readers to understand also, what I disagree with and agree with and also how the hand and brain work together. I found that the first couple of chapters in the book went over the key points rather than the last couple of chapters, Rose explains that all work has some sort of skill required to do the job…
This Annotated Bibliography has researched based on the mind wandering. In my research Smallwood and Schooler shows the different models of mind wandering and how it can effect completing tasks in the article called ' The Restless Mind.' Killingsworth and Gilbert wrote an article , they tried to get samples and evidence to prove 'A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind.' Szpunar, Moulton and Schacter discussed how mind wandering can effect classroom and online based learning. Smallwood, Fitzgeral, Miles and Phillips researched on Negative moods can lead to Mind wandering.…
What is it to have consciousness? This is a contentious argument within the philosophy community. Some philosophers believe that consciousness is merely a state of being, while others do not. David Chalmers is a philosopher from Australia, who specializes in the mind (431). He argues that the mind is more then just material.…
The first process is when nerves in the skin sense something harmful and communicate that information to the spinal cord. There the motor neurons activate movements that cause us to react; this is the physical recognition of harm known as nociception. Nearly all animals even those with simple nervous systems experience it because without it animals would be unable to avoid harm and their survival becomes threatened . The second process is called conscious recognition. In humans, this will occur when the sensory neurons in our skin make a second round of connections via the spinal cord to the brain.…
In their work, The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David Chalmers present the extended mind hypothesis to argue against the idea of the mind consisting solely of inputs and outputs. The hypothesis argues that the mind is not simply an internal thing, but rather that it can exist externally and be part of an individual’s environment. Clark and Chalmers argue for this this by presenting the examples of Otto, a man whose memories and knowledge lie in a notebook, and Inga someone who stores all the information in her mental states. I will argue that the extended mind hypothesis is unsuccessful because there is no clear line of what is actually known and what is only thought to be known. The extended mind hypothesis is the argument that…
Nature of Mind Summary David Armstrong wholeheartedly believes in “Scientism” and agrees strongly with Materialist views. He starts off by making the point that he absolutely believes that humans have minds. Some people believe that the mind is the physical brain while others have spiritual beliefs about the mind. There are other views and theories out there, but those are the most popular, controversial ones. Although there’s many theories, most people can come to an agreement that all humans have certain functions that clearly link up to the mind/brain.…
Mind and Body: Physical Manifestations of the Mind Our immune system is there to protect us from anything that will do harm to our body, such as antigens. However, for someone who have an autoimmune disorder, their immune system fails to identify what is doing harm and helping the body. Based on the U.S. National Library of Medicine, The exact cause of autoimmune disorders is unknown. One theory is that some microorganisms (such as bacteria or viruses) or drugs may trigger changes that confuse the immune system. This may happen more often in people who have genes that make them more prone to autoimmune disorders.”…
Picture a world in which you are the only mind. A world in which you are the only truly thinking being. In this world, you cannot be sure if others are having thoughts because they have a mind or if they are just simply a robot that is physically but not mentally present. This world is thought by some to exist, yet there are also many who oppose this philosophy known to many as the problem of other minds. From concepts coined by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, P.F. Strawson, and more; we came to the belief that this theory and idea that there are no minds besides your own to be false based on the arguments of analogical inference, theoretical entities, and ascription of mental predicates.…
After watching the movie "A Beautiful Mind" i learned a wide range on how critical thinking can take form in many quiet and sneaky ways and just how important it really is. This movie would be very helpful to a student of Critical Thinking because of those reasons. It shows the hit/effect critical reading has with a practical example and shows how it can affect us in or day to day lives and how much we can benefit from thinking critically and how much we can loss by having a "dull" mind. In the movie i (saw/heard/became aware of) a few facts that were worth (seeing/hearing/becoming aware of).…