Your Caveman Brain: Running From Predators At Work By Manie Bosman

      The theoretical proposition of this study is that one’s emotions can come from an external or an internal situation which creates a certain emotion for example afraidness. If this emotion is felt more than one time occurring at the same moment as something else for example seeing a spider or snake , the spider or snake will therefore will become connected with being afraid in your brain. This example is very similar to the one Watson used, which was rats he then said that us as humans were “not born to fear rats.” In fact, he said we learned this fear “through conditioning.” This led to one of Watson 's most famed experience that included the subject “Little Albert B.” It is clear the aspect of human behavior in which Watson was interested in is a person’s emotions.

The fight-or-flight response is a very important reaction of the human body. It can help us decide whether a situation is suitable to fight back or flee for safety. In many ways the fight-or-flight response can be useful in a stressful setting that would be difficult to decide for ourselves. Think of it as a bodyguard, it protects you when your body is faced with a risky situation. Likewise, it can tell your brain if a setting is too dangerous to fight in and would be better to just run. The fight-or-flight response is a real thing and not an excuse to act cowardly in dangerous situations. Studies have proven extensive research done by Walter Cannon on the autonomic nervous system and noticeable side effects such as: the chills, increased

In the book, A Primate 's Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life Among Baboons, by Robert Sapolsky is about bettering understanding the connection between animals, in this case baboons and humans. Most importantly what is the correlation if any, between the emotions and diseases of a baboon and human. Sapolsky, spent twenty years of his life studying how baboons act, react, and most importantly how they express themselves. Further understanding the relationships of baboons and how their hierarchy works, out in the wilderness. Throughout Sapolsky’s study we realize the many similarities between the baboon and humans, how we aren’t so different after all. Sapolsky, in A Primate’s Memoir, is trying to capture to the best of his

The television series, Through the Wormhole had an episode that talked about the Subconscious of the human brain. The subconscious of the brain has long been thought of as the source of our primal fears and desires. Scientists have discovered how the subconscious makes snap decisions that protect us from harm, and that it can be trained to actually heal our bodies of disease. There was an example in the video where Morgan Freeman talked about when he was eight years old he had to memorize twelve line from a play but thought he would forget if he goes on stage in front of a big crowd. Once he got on stage, the nervousness of his body went away and recited every line in the play. This comes to show that the brain can memorize many things when it comes to reading or movement. Certain parts of the brain tend to turn off when we start on a task. Those regions of the brain become active

Furthermore, Physiological and emotional responsiveness describes how two separate events occurring simultaneously or close together in time may result in a conditioned physiological reaction, which may occur when only one of the stimulus is present (Bandura, 1977). The sounds and events that occurred during Kampuschs time in captivity were closely paired to physical violence, hunger and loneliness that even after she escaped she still described feeling like the outside world brought no relief, evidence of conditioned physiological reactions. Supportive of the explanation of social learning theory Barber and Hahn (1964) found that when individuals were aware of events, which proceeded distress, the events had the ability to create fear-arousing thoughts, these fear arousing thought had the ability to result in physiological reactions similar to those of actual fearful events (Cuthbert et al.,

stimuli by adults and young children” published by Psychological Science authors Vanessa LoBue and Judy S. DeLoache analyze the evidence that children detect threatening stimuli more promptly than other types of stimuli. In this experiment, adults and children were presented with images with both threatening and non-threatening stimuli. The images were presented on a touch screen and participants were asked to press on the threatening stimuli. The objective of this experiment was to determine whether people could detect stimuli that are evolutionarily pertinent early in life. The hypothesis is that the threatening stimuli will be detected more quickly that the other types of non-threatening stimuli. Three experiments were performed on both adults and children, and both detected snakes more rapidly than the other aspects of the image, including butterflies and frogs. This research study contributed to psychological research advancement by providing evidence of better visual detection of threatening stimuli due to evolutionary relevance.

We, the human species are unique. This is a phrase we all have heard at some point in our lives. We are "unique" compared to other animals in our language, movements, and emotions. We have our own language which the majority of animals do not, we stand on two legs while the majority of the animals are on four legs, and we are much more sensitive to our emotional reactions, making us complex animals. Now, where does all these differences come from? As the title suggest, our human brains are incredible in the way they process information. This article aims to discuss the differences of human brain compared to other animal brains, and what makes us humans so unique in our responsive reactions in how we process information. More specifically, this paper will examine the influences the environment has on our human brains and how the changing environment influences our brain evolution in how we respond.

Through my aspirations for improvement, I have become fascinated with the cognitive psychology and neuroscience behind human performance. With this essay, I intend to show the path which led me

Where the Wilds Things Are is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze, it is adapted from Maurice Sendak’s children book of the same name wrote in 1963. Max, the main character of 9 years old, retreats from the frustration of his life into fantasy, and so do we all. The movie works with the part of the human subconscious.

Neuropsychology is the study of brain-behavior relationships (Barkley, 1983). It is the scientific study of the association between the different structures and physiological processes of the nervous system and the behavior of organisms (Barkley, 1983). The focus of this particular field in psychology is not just pertaining to humans as research on infrahumans consistently provides simple scientific information and data from which research ideas on humans will be drawn/ concluded from (Barkley, 1983). For example, research that was conducted on rats involved giving amphetamines to the rats with given closed head injuries yielded the option of exploring the use of stimulant drugs in helping the recovery of adults and children that have experienced accidental closed head trauma (Barkley, 1983). The field includes the study of developmental changes of the nervous system and it’s behavioral parallels as well as the effects of experimental and also accidental changes of the nervous system on the behavior of an individual (Barkley, 1983).

This essay will outline and compare both biological and behavioural perspectives on human behaviour. The history, major discoveries and theories will be discussed along with some of the most influential theorists in each of these two areas of psychology. This essay will also compare the two areas strengths and weaknesses in the field of psychology.

Do animals think? This question has been debated for centuries and no clear answer has yet to be decided. By looking at television, comic books, and children’s literature it would seem that animals do think and act intelligently. The fictional characters are given human movements, behavior, and language. In contrast, science, philosophy, and many other academic fields do not believe animals to think, feel, or behave intelligently. Animals are merely machines that have neither feelings nor conscious thought (Schultz & Schultz, 2008).

Due to the traumatic stress this man had endured, the areas of his brain implicated in the stress response showed evidence that due to the harmful effects of stress and eventful childhood experience, it greatly affected the outcome of the murderous man. Areas of the brain included the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex which were greatly affected from the stress, eventually, delivering stress with increased cortisol and norepinephrine responses to stressors. There is also strong evidence to suggest that he may fall under what Freud called the Achilles Complex, which occurs

I must disagree with you about the caveman's ability to critically think. If they didn't have the ability to think critically, how would you explain their ability to make fire, stone tools, hunt, etc. I personally believe that if they had the resources, they would try to discover the science behind the lightning strike that killed his

After I run through the doors hearing the echoes bounce off the vacant walls as I leap onto the couch. Those two months were finally over. It had it's ups and downs like me and Jacob became closer, I played tricks and pranks on him, but the downside was the work we had to do, I felt like we had to mash our brains together just to solve one question.