Summary: In the article “Brainology”, Dweck talk about two types of attitudes or mindsets. The two types are a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Students with a growth mindset tended to get up again from setbacks and continuously improve academically with added effort, while those with a fixed mindset had a mindset that their abilities is what they are stuck with, they are afraid to further challenge themselves; due to belief that they aren't capable. Dweck had concluded that praising one without any acknowledgement of effort tended to create a fixed mindset while those praised for hard work or effort were more likely to not only feel more confident but still kept trying even if a task was a challenge, making these qualities a growth mindset,…
Electrodes and Their Effect on Brain Function In the article, “Jumper Cables for The Mind”, Dan Hurley describes his experience with tDCS (transcranial direct-current stimulation) and if its process changes brain activity to cause quick reaction time, better memory, improved mental health, and even the ability to solve equations. This stimulation process involves the attachment of wires, (similar to what is used in an EEG), to the head on certain areas for specific targets of the brain. It is a short session and allows an analyzation to see if any changes had been made by doing a simple test exercise on a computer. Successful results will show improved reaction time and less problems marked wrong on the exercise.…
1. Connect the concepts presented in the video to course concepts. After watching the video episode of The Secret Life of the Brain, the course concept that comes to mind are the Frontal lobe (Prefrontal cortex) of the brain and the amygdala. First, when watching the video episode, the episode discussed how the frontal lobe entitles how the brain helps humans to engage with each other and our environment.…
Brain Nuclear Scan Nuclear Brain scanning is a type of nuclear imaging test, which means it uses a radioactive substance and a special camera to create a 3-D pictures. While image tests such as x-rays can show what the structure inside your body looks like, a Nuclear scan produces images that show how the organs work. The reason I choice nuclear brain scanning, do to the fact my step mom has Epilepsy that she has acquired from a brain disorder from damage in the temporal lobe area. She underwent NeuroBlate brain surgery, where they used MRI at the same time they were doing the NeuroBlate surgery to track the laser to burn out part of her temporal lobe to help stop the seizures. The First neuroimaging technique called human circulation balance…
A. Exploring the Unconscious i. Freud used free association, in which he told the patient to relax and say whatever came to mind. ii. Called his treatment techniques psychoanalysis iii. Beneath our awareness is the larger unconscious mind with its thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. 1.…
Whether the fusiform gyrus is an area of the brain which is specifically for perception of human faces. 2) Explain why this new ROI technique is important for fMRI research. Results collected from part I were used in order to produce exact ROIs for subjects in the following parts, by outlining the foundations of the faces versus objects test. These ROIs were used for parts II and IIIs tests and analyses. There are a couple of issues with the process of fMRI, one being that it is nearly impossible to have unambiguity in imaging studies with only two or three compared conditions, and by using fMRI researchers aimed to overcome this issue; running a number of tests on subjects in the same cortical region in order to find distinct regions of the cortex…
It is generally acknowledged that schizophrenia has an etiology which is biological. In any case, the movement towards this assertion is still under study, and the etiology of schizophrenia has been the subject of long discussions over the past years. The level headed discussion has been part between the individuals who propose psychodynamic etiology and those that hypothesize biological etiology to schizophrenia. For proponents for psychodynamic origin to schizophrenia, non-natural variables, for example, family connection and upsetting life occasions have been proposed to be part of the reasons that one could acquire schizophrenia. Be that as it may, these hypotheses have gotten minimal experimental/evidence support.…
Everyone is miserable with their lives and will eventually die a tragic death. OK, so that isn’t completely the case in this collection of stories, but it isn’t that far off. This is genuinely what the audience is left feeling after reading Bullet in the Brain, Safari, and Happy Endings. In these essays, you get a glimpse at how truly tragic human life is and the frightening realization that there is no such thing as happily ever after. All three stories look at how truly flawed and tragic human life really is.…
HUMAN BRAIN: HOW SMART CAN WE GET? Watch the movie in class and, as you watch, answer the following questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE53EkxKWpw 1. What happened to Einstein’s brain?…
The experimental results could be helpful one day for looking at dreams, hallucinations, solving legal cases, and even diagnosing degenerative diseases.…
Cognitive psychology is the study of human mental processes that occur within the mind. It looks at such internal processes such as, memory, perception and attention. It came about in the 1950’s as a result of the behaviourist approach being flawed; internal mental processes cannot be observed. Therefore, from this an alternative method of looking at the physiological side of the brain had to emerge. Cognitive neuroscience was then born to identify the neural mechanisms, which are responsible for underlying cognition.…
Deep brain stimulation is a technique where an electrode is placed within certain areas of the brain. Electrical impulses are then created by the electrode to regulate abnormal impulses. Under the patient’s skin near the collarbone, the electrode is connected to a stimulator or pacemaker (Pluta, 2011). Deep brain stimulation requires locating the target part of the brain and then drilling a small hole in the skull to allow the placement of an electrode. During the implantation of the electrode, testing occurs to make sure that the electrode is only stimulating nerve cells that reduce symptoms.…
This field of psychology has a relatively new field called cognitive neuroscience which includes the study of physical workings of 9the brain and the nervous system when engaged in memory, thinking, and other cognitive processes. (Ciccarelli & White, 2005.) The neuroscientists that study this field of cognitive perspective use tools that image the structure and activity of the living brain for example, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and positron emission tomography…
In 1971, Philip Zimbardo conducted a social experiment called Stanford Experiment at the Stanford psychology departments basement. Which the basement for Stanford was converted to a real prison. Over 70 college students reached out to the add that was put up in the newspaper about this experiment. Only 24 random college men to be the “prisoners”, and a few men to be the “guards” in this experiment. Zimbardo would pay them 15 dollars a day till the experiment was over, which had to last 2 weeks.…
They can study how it works, what parts are linked to different issues and different problems. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as an advanced technology allowed us very carefully to control the experiment with live participants in non-invasive way. Numerous images of brain offers opportunity to look at fine details at the deeper structure of the brain without surgical intervention. While MRI is all about the structure of the brain another modern technics are known as functional brain imaging (fMRI) which investigates the activity of the brain.…