long until the doctor discovered that she behaved in an unusual manner. Especially during post-surgery reviews, the doctor would observe that Kara’s left hand is active without her knowing that something is going on. He would ask Kara if she knew that her left hand was moving, for example, unbuttoning her blouse. “When the doctor told me that my left hand was undoing my blouse, I was mortified! It was shocking and confusing! So, I began to re-do the buttons on my blouse, only to have them undone…
SECTION ONE Out of all the assignments listed for this first case study this one was going to be the easiest. I knew who I could observe and it fit my time frame of a busy college student. What interest me about this assignment was how thoroughly detailed it is, there’s a lot of information I had to gather to make the over all message and meaning clear. You don’t hear about the motor development in children anymore, it’s all about intelligence now. What level does he or she read; does he or she…
the infant was able to go very quickly from one toy or play area to another, however, he would fatigue easily and spend time in prone as a relief position or break while playing moving from toy to toy. Side lying, this position was also utilized in left and right side lying as a part of his active rest. Prop sit he utilized this position along with quadruped the most. Quadruped this was the most highly employed position of all. This was the static portion of his crawling, which he was…
here hands should be located to produce a sign. The exception to this would be with signs that require your left hand to sign on the right side of the body or the right hand to sign on the left side of the body. This is not an accepted modification and her accuracy has improved with practice. An example of this would be the sign BOSS where the right hand is in a B handshape and taps the left upper chest. Carol has been known to tap her right upper chest with her right hand when attempting to…
swore out a warrant, no doubt signing it with his left hand, and Tom Robinson now sits before you, having taken the oath with the only good hand which he possesses--his right hand."( 272-273 ). Irony is used here to prove that Tom Robinson is innocent. Because of the warrant that was issued with a left handed person, which is the same hand that would have left the scars on Mayella, to try and get Tom arrested and killed. However, Tom Robinson’s left hand his hardly able to do much. He cannot do…
They are a tight knit community, making one big family. In the story The Earth On Turtle’s Back told by the Iroquois tribe tells the story of a woman falling from the heavens and creating what is now the land of the earth. The woman had two sons; a left handed son and a right handed son. The…
study, the main independent variable is the presence of transcranial magnetic stimulation (stimulation of right posterior parietal cortex cerebral hemisphere, stimulation of left posterior parietal cortex cerebral hemisphere, no transcranial magnetic stimulation) and the main dependent variable is the handedness (right or left) when performing unimanual movements. This study was conducted on participants that were selected based on their gender and handedness. The first experiment of the study…
In psychology, it is stated many times, throughout many publications, that it is difficult to define abnormality. In contrast, I also find it true that it is even more difficult to define normal. In class, we have discussed the ten criteria of abnormality. In my opinion, this stands as a way to define abnormality. However, if a person only meets half of the criteria, or even one of the criteria, are they considered normal or not? This is the conflict that I am going to discuss in the…
decided something needed to change. When I got home after that last game I was so upset with myself, I couldn’t bear it. I didn’t know what to do so, I asked my dad for advise. He thought about it for awhile, then said to me “Kiara, you are naturally a left handed person so why not go with what’s right and be a switch hitter?”. At first I…
Free throws wins games is most likely a phrase that most athletes hear from their basketball coaches. Even though they are only worth a point, they tend to occur at the most crucial parts of the game. For example, one second remains on the clock and your team is tied with the opposing one. The ball is in your hands, you control the outcome of the game. If you miss it, the other team has a chance to score and win. If you make it, your team wins. Thus, free throws win games. If only it was as…