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A drastic increase to 61% of Netflix subscribers’ regularly binge-watching shows, in 2015, suggests that the screen addiction may result in profoundly negative physical and psychological effects on frequent internet users. Are humans becoming too reliant on technology that was created to help us? Worldwide there are over 75 million people now subscribed to video streaming website, Netflix, seeing a drastic amount of growth recent years. The technological revolution in the previous three…

? Your self esteem is how you feel about yourself based on your actions. Its what you have control over. Its how you feel about yourself from the inside out. Overall its your values and the actions you take to become who you are. A question you might ask yourself is "Are you satisfied with yourself?" Your self worth has a much more spiritual bend to it. Because its directly related to your identity, you feeling of importance on earth, also its your sense of self. To me there 's a major…

It has been well established that personal stress can affect our bodies and behavior, but what about the stress experienced by our parents or even our grandparents? It is not too much of a stretch to connect a mother’s stress during pregnancy to changes in the fetus. It makes sense that what the mother’s body goes through during pregnancy could also affect the child, however, in the New York Times article by Inna Gaisler-Salomon, “Inheriting Stress” (March 7, 2014), the author discussed her…

Do you ever wonder what will teenagers do in order to avoid accidents? Does the teenager’s brains help them to avoid accidents? Or do they even know how to avoid accidents? According to Dobbs article, he shows teenagers from 14-17 years old are the biggest risk takers, but they use the same basic cognitive strategies that adults do, and they also reason their way through problems just as well as adults Dobb (2011). Since teenagers and adults use the same strategies. What are the other…

What’s My Age Again: The song What’s my Age Again discusses the growing responsibilities of adolescents and young adults. This song in particular takes place in artist’s Emerging Adulthood, a newer period of time utilized to adjust to adulthood. He feels obligated to new responsibilities because of his social clock, the pressure to perform a task when it is socially acceptable in this case the task of growing up; as a result he uses defense mechanisms including repression, the pushing of…

Phineas Gage Investigators have considered the cerebrum for a significant long time to find the exact part of the brain in scholarly limits. Phineas P Gage, a railroad improvement expert got a traumatic personality change, which gives learning into accurately how a Traumatic Brain Damage (TBI) affects scholarly limits. Phineas Gage's incident uncovered basic information about how the brain settings support mental limit when a (TBI) happens. A couple structures shape the cerebrum, which accept a…

What exactly is something that would be considered as a “brain rule”? These rules include things, which scientists know for certain about how the human brain operates. The human brain is a fundamental, physical system that requires sleep, exercise and proper nutrition in order to function optimally. The body and the mind aren’t separate things; the human brain is a physical system which has needs that are physical. John Medina goes into detail in his book, “Brain Rules” about how an individual…

Decisions in life are inevitable, and although unavoidable, a majority of the decisions made with everyday behavior are repetitively overlooked. One of the most frequently disregarded decisions made in everyday life is which hand to use when performing actions such as grasping, writing, lifting, and gesturing. Copious studies suggest that the posterior parietal cortex is of paramount importance when executing hand actions and motions. Comparatively, past experiments exhibit bilateral posterior…

So, what makes someone be considered an adult when they grow up? When they’re 18, 25 or when they’re above 18, but they’re fully mature before the age of 25. So why do people say the age should be 18, even though there are many 18 year olds who are considered an “adult” but still don’t make the right decisions for themselves and can’t even take care of themselves? Same goes for 25, why should that age be considered an adult? Well the most reasonable answer to determine adulthood is when they’re…

high in ecological validity. Albeit, it is apparent FBMs are no different to ordinary vivid autographical memories as they decay over time and become distorted which highlights discrepancies in Brown & Kulik’s theory. Crucial progression on temporal lobe epilepsy and FBMs has emerged in research. With the progress of current findings on FBMs, future studies are vital to develop an assessment model of FBMs in an attempt to fully consider how they are formed, stored and processed cognitively, to…