Cognitive neuroscience

The Servant of Two Masters was put together by Kent State’s school of theatre and dance. The set design, costumes, lighting, sound, and performers came together to create the brilliant comedy. The Servant of Two Masters was written by Carlo Goldoni and directed by Tracy Young. The production of this play created a performance that was colorful, bright, and hilarious. The elements of this production were intriguing. The lighting, sound, costumes, and set design were all unified and truly…

I have no idea what that kid was talking about. I really think he is “mentally challenged” I think they call it. Anyway I decided to walk some more, (away from the weird kid) I wasn’t at all worried about my family. About an hour later I walked back home, the sun was setting the clouds were orange, it is a beautiful sight to see. As I walked the thought that my family was captured still haunted me. I had no idea why, but it did. I was getting to my house The door was wide open and the window was…

One’s Innate Tendency to Read Words Saipriya Sagiraju University of Massachusetts Amherst Abstract Directed attention is a mechanism used by humans every day to manage their thoughts by inhibiting a stimuli in order to say or do something else; this tendency is also known as the Stroop effect. To test the effects of the Stroop task we conducted an experiment to examine if words on silhouettes have an effect on the reaction time of verbalizing the names of the animals on a silhouette sheet. We…

A neuropsychological assessment consists of administering tests that examine a set of more-or-less independent functional domains that are controlled by brain systems. While neuropsychologists agree on a general range of functional domains, some categories may be combined in different examinations. Nevertheless, neuropsychological assessment generally taps most of these areas of functioning that potentially may be impacted by brain disorders. Attention and Processing Speed -- The capability to…

In the beginning of second semester I was being introduced into Psychology 101 which I had no idea on what this course will be teaching. As I just know the word “PSY” it would be mentioning about physical or something to do with the body. Then, doing some research about what Psychology will be teaching about from YouTube. Also, reading some articles from this website on what they will be mentioning about what the body will reacts to some situations. In the past months as learning about the basic…

Mini Mental Status Exam JS scored twenty-eight out of thirty possible on the Mini-Mental State Examination. This shows no cognitive impairment without any clinical signs of cognitive impairment present. She received a perfect score on everything except two areas. The first one was only being able to recite only two of the three items to be remembered. Second area was difficulty counting back from one hundred by sevens (Demential Today website, n.d.). Mini-Mental Status Exam results show…

domains or areas of development, such as physical growth, cognition, language, and social relationships” (Barnfield & Kail, 2012, p.19). In this paper, the child was observed and assed based on five different domains which includes physical growth, cognitive domain, emotional domain, social and self-concept domain. The child that I have assessed is a 10-year old girl, she is currently in Grade 5, her parents are both pure Filipino but she is raised and born here in Canada. For ethical reasons…

The little squirrel is named Mike the Knight. He loves dressing up as a knight he wants to help everyone and save the world. He made his whole knight costumes. Mike said I bet when I become a real knight I wont have to make my own costume. This is a little bit about Mike. A couple minutes later Mike saw a little girl heading to the water by herself so he ran over there to distracted her. Her parents came running and picked up Mike and said thank you for saving my daughter. Mike said I love…

Oswald Cobblepot or the Penguin seems to be a narcissistic, manipulative, megalomaticitist, psychopath. He was powerless as a child and due to the conservative personality of his mother he rarely talked to other humans or peer preventing him to learn to make emotional connections. He does not have antisocial personality disorder this is easy to tell from the beginning. He is deprived of emotional support and clings to any he gets. He clings to his mother throughout childhood and when she is…

I am currently a Psychology major in the School of Cognitive Sciences, and I chose this major as it has a wealth of applicable skills, that once I graduate, I can find a job/career without major difficulty. With psychology, the intentions, expectations, and behaviors of people are better understood, are can at least be better anticipated, and that will be a great asset in my future careers. Apart from that, I have learned a multitude of information regarding motivation and "memory techniques"…