Many students dream of working harder, smarter, and faster. Some find that they simply do not have the functioning capacity to stay focused on one thing. How do students combat this problem? These students embark on their journey through homework with a dose of cognitive enhancing drugs. These drugs. while helpful, cause more harm than good. Due to these harmful physical and emotional effects, cognitive enhancing drugs should not be used. Many counter this argument by stating the positives of enhancers: the alertness and improvement of focus. While all of these benefits are true, the pernicious effects are much more concerning. Brendan Maher, a writer for Nature.com, writes, “[r]oughly half reported unpleasant side effects, and some discontinued
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All psychology practitioners know the seven approaches to psychology; however, not all seven apply. One approach that does apply is the evolutionary approach. The evolutionary approach states that mental abilities evolve over millions of years. An example of this would be vision. Vision, while not entirely psychological in nature, did develop gradually over many years. Similar to vision, the human attention span and memory evolved with us. The human attention span ranges anywhere from eight to twelve seconds, depending on the person, while memory remains too complex to describe in a simple sentence. Memory remains a complicated brain-wide process. Both of these amazing aspects of the human mind developed to be the way they are for a reason. If humans truly needed laser-pointed focus and memory that never forgot, then would humans have not evolved with …show more content…
The powerful peer-pressure, harmful mind-altering elements, and lack of common sense would be deemed common. The irony in this is that if everyone has amazing memory, then nobody has it. Based on the evolutionary, biological, and sociocultural aspects of psychology, cognitive enhancing drugs should not be used. By becoming drug addicts trying to get ahead, enhancers victims have actually been falling far
All psychology practitioners know the seven approaches to psychology; however, not all seven apply. One approach that does apply is the evolutionary approach. The evolutionary approach states that mental abilities evolve over millions of years. An example of this would be vision. Vision, while not entirely psychological in nature, did develop gradually over many years. Similar to vision, the human attention span and memory evolved with us. The human attention span ranges anywhere from eight to twelve seconds, depending on the person, while memory remains too complex to describe in a simple sentence. Memory remains a complicated brain-wide process. Both of these amazing aspects of the human mind developed to be the way they are for a reason. If humans truly needed laser-pointed focus and memory that never forgot, then would humans have not evolved with …show more content…
The powerful peer-pressure, harmful mind-altering elements, and lack of common sense would be deemed common. The irony in this is that if everyone has amazing memory, then nobody has it. Based on the evolutionary, biological, and sociocultural aspects of psychology, cognitive enhancing drugs should not be used. By becoming drug addicts trying to get ahead, enhancers victims have actually been falling far