Temporal lobe

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…

Throughout the history of the science of psychology, researchers, clinicians, and theorists have all attempted to answer the question “what makes us uniquely human?” It is obvious to the untrained observer of nature how humans are different from other mammals in the animal kingdom: humans can think rationally and logically, have feelings and emotions, develop more slowly than any other mammal, and are able to work together on a massive scale to form sprawling civilizations. When one steps back…

life being turned upside down when a bullet shot at his head nearly kills him. Late one-night Henry’s need for cigarettes kicks in so he leaves his secure home to buy a pack only to wake up in the hospital days later. The bullet hit his right frontal lobe causing him to forget everything. Before this incident, Henry’s choices were manipulated by his Id. He did everything with his best interest in mind or what would make him be happy to the fullest extent. This did not pay off well for Henry, he…

The Prefrontal cortex, also known as the frontal lobe, is located behind the forehead. The Prefrontal Cortex helps with thinking ahead and sizing up risk and reward. The Frontal Lobe matures later than other parts of the brain. (Galvan). If teens spend too much time on screens, then their behavior could result badly, since their frontal lobe matures later. Prefrontal Cortex damage can cause disinhibition, such that the behavior of a subject is…

What were they Thinking? The Adolescent Brain Teenagers in the 21st century. A girl whose parents always told her that hot, popular boys aren’t so ‘hot’ in the inside, becomes pregnant by a boy she barely even knew. The shy boy who always knew never to take drugs or alcohol from anyone, goes to a party and comes home, drunk. An extremely gifted kid who excelled all throughout high school, drops out of college and now lives in their parent’s attic, with barely any money in the bank or even a job…

To begin, Greene’s study entitled “Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex” and the hypothesis claimed that the amygdala enables automatic emotional responses while the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is responsible for an all things considered response, also known as the rational response. This experiment operated in this manner, participants underwent a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan while responding to 48 “trolley”-type…

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…

Elliott de Bruin Block 7 10/12/15 Dear Judge Smith, Dick Hickock does not deserve to die. The death penalty is not a justifiable or moral punishment for Dick Hickock’s actions on the night of November 15, 1959, because he is mentally impaired, which causes him to act antisocially and impulsively without thought of future consequence. Additionally, the only crimes he committed that night were breaking and entering and robbery. Dick Hickock’s actions are a result of a mental condition he…

My reaction to the subject of identity helped me to fully understand it. After reading the text book todays lesson and my personal experiences I fully realize how important identity has been in my life. In the class activity and lecture, I was fully able to understand the concept of identity. I found that with the photo you asked us to pick out and the group conversation, I understood identity and how we develop identity. My photo was a picture of me and my sister at her high school graduation,…