Reflexes

Blood Pressure Blood pressure , as a physiological variable of humans, is a hydrostatic pressure, utilized by blood on the walls of blood vessels.(Tortora and Derrickson 2011). It is caused by the contraction of the ventricles and the amount of blood in the whole cardiovascular system. The mean blood pressure (the average pressure in the cardiac cycle) is coordinated in order to provide adequate blood transfer to the tissues.(Saladin,2001). The decrease of blood pressure is followed by an…

Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology with mental processes such as perception, thinking, learning, and memory. The first recognition of the field of cognitive psychology was George Mandler, in 1964 upon creating a facility known as the Center for Human Information Processing (Kiderra, 2016). The “cognitive revolution” fifty years ago sparked new ideas about the way people thought about the mind. Without cognitive psychology, psychologists would still believe the brain was a random mass…

391,735 children, in the Metro-Detroit and South Central counties of Michigan, suffer from neglect, abuse, and homelessness. Youth facing these adversities are often victim to effects of mental disorders (depression, anxiety, PTSD), educational and behavioral disabilities, improper brain development, and substance abuse. Many children, who have these effects, are unaware of places in their community where they can receive support. Since 1969, The Ozone House has provided a free shelter for…

Let us start talking about Sethe, this iron nigger woman and former slave, She was living in 124 with her daughter Denver. They had a company, a ghost. Paul.D came, he was one of Sweet Home men, where she lived there before with her husband Halle, she describes herself as: So as we read above, she had bad memories from the slave age, Torture traces in her back from 18 years ago, when schoolteacher's nephews whipped her. After they treated her like an animal. Although she was pregnant, she…

get even closer to the elk for a picture, only a few feet away from the massive animal. This was the last straw for the elk, and it quickly became disturbed and angry and decided to charge at not only John, but at me too. Thankfully, both of our reflexes were sharp, and we ducked to the sides as the elk rushed at us. We landed on the soft snow but were very badly shocked. No further harm came our way as the elk did not choose to come back and attack again. After lying on the ground for a long…

This definition describes CP as a heterogeneous condition in terms of type and severity of impairment. As a disorder of development, this implies the motor impairment that is manifest very early in development. The core features of CP include, abnormal patterns of movement, posture and regulation of muscle tone. Neurodevelopmental impairments affect adaptive and sensory functioning, learning, communication, behavior and even seizures. (Martin Bax, 2005) Cerebral Palsy is the most common…

knowledge learned organized. One way Piaget explained Schemas was how newborn babies have a reflex to suck whenever something touches their lips, which explains why pacifiers work without having to “teach” the child to suck on them. These ingrained reflexes are examples of schemas. Piaget also studied adaptation when it came to cognitive development. Adaptation as Piaget explains it occurs through three different stages. Assimilation, which is like carry-over in sports training. When one sport…

The objective of the game is to get rid of all the cards in your ‘pile’ by moving them to the central ‘pile’. There can be up to four central piles that everyone can play on during their turn but, they must be played in order of ace to queen with kings being a wild card. Following is the steps that each player may take on their turn. 1. Deal out the cards into piles and hands. (one of each per player) 2. First player either play their cards into the center piles by playing an ace or a king…

The nervous system is broken down into two major systems: Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nervous System. We’ll discuss the Central Nervous System first. The Central Nervous System consists of the brain and the spinal cord. The Cerebral Cortex, which is involved in a variety of higher cognitive, emotional, sensory, and motor functions is more developed in humans than any other animal. It is what we see when we picture a human brain, the gray matter with a multitude of folds covering the…

“When it seems like the night will last forever, and there’s nothing left to do but count the years…” (Garcia). The Grateful Dead, in their song “Black Muddy River,” unwittingly describe the life of the person afflicted with amnesia. The difference between the amnesia laden life and “Black Muddy River” is that amnesiacs do not know they have missed years to count. Amnesia, a memory disorder that prevents the encoding or retrieval of new (anterograde amnesia) or old memories (retrograde…