Cognitive neuroscience

There are multiple reasons why there is an increase (1)of homeless people in the city of Houston . Poverty , substance abuse , someone running away from home , etc . I will apply cognitive dissonance , social comparison and self-concept to focus on the external attributions ; instead of internal and figure out a possible explanation to this phenomenon . When we feel a dissonance towards our decisions , we tend to grow anxiety and a feeling that something is not right . For example , if a person…

Person One: My roommate, Haley. This week was really an eye opener for me. I learned that my best friend has been struggling and I didn’t even realize it. I started to ask Haley deeper questions and she completely opened up to me. I learned that Haley is the type of person who likes to appear like she’s perfect. She doesn’t want people to see her struggle. I think the reason Haley is like this is because of her family. She doesn’t want to disappoint them and so she is constantly trying to do…

The American Psychological Association defines psychology as: “the study of the mind and behavior. The discipline embraces all aspects of the human experience — from the functions of the brain to the actions of nations, from child development to care for the aged.” Psychology, or at least the study of the mind and behavior, has been around since Antiquity, with some of the earliest instances tracing back to almost 3,000 years ago in Egypt and Greece. It has gone from ideas of the human soul and…

Have you ever think about what you are taking for granted which are other people cannot have? Maybe most of us will never think about that much. However, there is a photo after audience saw it, this question will came to their mind. It is a photo of four boys, two pages of a book, a pencil, and a shabby desk. The boys’ appearances seem dirty. Their heads are all crowded and concentrated on the two pages of a book which seems obsolete (Yap). In this image, there are three points that can be…

The current literature suggests that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) regulates the areas of the brain implicated on self-regulation and self-directed attention and behavior1. The activation of such areas of the brain contributes reducing stress during the emotion regulation, improving anxiety and mood symptoms in Depression and Anxiety Disorders2. A key aspect in these disorders is the rumination and the focus on the future and the personal worries, keeping the person away from the…

“Every scientist has their own quirks.” I guess you could label me as a scientist since I was working in a lab under the chemistry professor who said that. I quickly thought of what my own quirk was, and then it dawned upon me; my quark is my speech disfluency. Throughout the latter half of my maturing years, I’ve had to come to an abrupt stop in the middle of my sentences because I physically couldn’t pronounce the start of the next word—vowels usually being the culprit, but sometimes even…

After retiring from performing for a live crowd, Gould focused on studio recordings and radio shows. His anxiety while performing at concerts did not disappear after his retirement from stage, instead it shifted to the studio. In addition since he possessed limited amounts of education, Gould resorted to using sophisticated terms while conversing with others. Sadly, often what he said make very little sense as he used these words in the wrong context (Ostwald, 225). This in turn, affected his…

About a year ago Pauline, Gloria, and I decided to be in a group together for NHD. Our overall topic was exploration, encounter, and exchange. Then we had to decide whether to do a documentary, exhibit, website, or performance. I said, "I think we should do a performance!" Gloria and Pauline slightly agreed but wasn't sure. So I said, " I know we are all really shy and have a hatred for public speaking, but I think this will be good for us. After we all agreed we told our teacher and she was so…

MOHO conceptualizes an individual’s innermost characteristics and divides them into three interrelated elements: volition, habituation, and performance capacity (Kielhofner, 2010). Humans are an open system that is made up of four phases. They include, input, throughput, output, and feedback. The input phase means taking in information. The throughput phase refers to making sense of the information that was just taken in. The output phases refers to the action that a person takes as a result…

To do the analyze of the movie Good Will Hunting though the theory Cognitive Dissonance it required a review of literature with previous research about the topic that support this study. Following is the literature review that examined the variety of studies previously done by scholars in the area about Cognitive Dissonance. Leon Festinger is the founder of this theory and will be introduced as he is the primary source, following is a subtitle of research other scholars has done within this…