Alien hand syndrome

Introduction I performed my observation on a 3-year, 4-month old girl, P.H., from rural Oklahoma. She is the middle child of three children. Her parents, siblings, and P.H. do/have not received any special-needs services. I was able to observe several aspects of communication, motor, social, sensory, and literacy development. Communication P.H. is displaying the full range of Dore’s conversational acts. However, only a few she demonstrated will be explained next. She is very curious and is…

issue has been whether Socrates should be considered Man Thinking, as termed by Emerson. On one hand, some argue that because Socrates was unable to use his ideas to act and become powerful in his time, he cannot be considered Man Thinking. From this perspective, Socrates is not Man Thinking because he only thought but did not act upon his ideas, being more like the scholar than Man Thinking. On the other hand, however, others argue that because Socrates was Man Thinking because he did stood by…

although they did have different ways of doing them. Their attitude was great! They where both motivated to keep doing the task even if they where having a hard time. They did not give up. The four year old was very proud to accomplish any task on hand while the 6 year old just wanted to hurry up and move on the next task. He kept asking, “what else now.” They where both very comfortable with doing any task. The research motor…

thickness of the glove I did not felt much pain. When I grabbed him inside his cage I was talking to him at the same time so he can learn my voice. I could feel Blue trembling in my hands and its blood beating through those feathers, its whole little body pulsing like a single heart. I did managed to keep it on my hand without wearing that leather glove because I thought that at some point he had to learn to feel my…

demonstrated the most amount of asymmetry in terms of movement, while playing with the electronic keyboard. Because of the higher demand of fine motor control and the use of advance skill level the infant was predominantly using the right hand. Using the domain hand, the infant clicked the buttons on the keyboard to make…

women’s simple yet intricate performance and expression. One of the components Meeta Pandit utilized during her performance was the use of her hands. Meeta Pandit appeared to use musical gestures with her hands to signify different ragas or tones. Meeta utilized her hands as a tala for signaling rhythms to the table player. Furthermore, Metta Pandit’s hand gestures to me were telling or guiding the audience through a story. Which has great…

Exercise 4: Gesture and Gaze in Conversational Storytelling In order to make their narrative more plausible and detailed, many will use more than just a verbal account to illustrate their stories. Instead, they use gazes and gestures. In conversational storytelling, which is a collaborative event, gestures have meaningful functions that are tied to the description of the story. Simply defined, a gesture is the movement of the body that expresses a thought or feeling. In the video-recorded…

surrounding the Overbrook Asylum. On the outside, Overbrook was a welcoming place where patients were treated with care and respect; the inside was very different. I entered the asylum as a nurse in May of 1910 and was excited to be able to lend a helping hand to the people in need. I always had an interest in what made people tick and what made people think the way they did. The hospital had provided me a living area for the time I was there. The hospital wanted nurses who were on-call…

Emily Lange PSY 1003 Sec 002 Behavior Modification When it comes to your body, your hands are a very important part for your everyday life. Two weeks ago I broke my fourth left metacarpal bone in my right hand. Luckily, my injury was not traumatic enough to where I needed surgery. “Hand surgery is sometimes required when the bones are unstable as in a compound hand fracture in which bones visibly pierce the skin.” (Hand Fracture). However, with this being said it was required of me to wear a…

nervous motion. 27-Apr-17 0710am - 0730am 15 minutes Flicks finger in anxious or nervous motion 28-Apr-17 0730 am 0730 am 20 minutes No figure flicking The above chart depicts Michelle’s flicking her thumb and forefinger of her left hand duration time and stop. I observed the behavior of Michelle, flicking her thumb and forefinger time and time again until the bus arrived. She did this for two out of the three days for about 10 to 20 minutes. This information was interesting…