How Does The Human Brain React?

I started my education in Erie, Pennslyviana.I attend McDowell High. I would say that we were one of the richer schools were I live. I am going to talk about my first assignment Brainology. I thought it was very interesting and it thought me a lot about how some people have different mindsets.

At the age of 5 children recognise some words when looking through book. Their thinking skills increase and gain more memory as their vocabulary grows. Children learn from their different experiences

When it comes to the topic of having a growth mindset, most of us will readily agree that students who are praised are motivated to learn. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of how they are praised. Whereas some are convinced that praising students for their intelligence will motivate them to learn, others maintain that encouraging them for their efforts has a better impact on their motivation.

While on patrol, I was parked in the entrance to Mansard's plaza, facing E Ridge Rd, monitoring traffic. A female in a silver pickup truck pulled into the lot and flagged me down. The female pointed towards a white and maroon Corvette traveling east on Ridge Rd and stated that she believes the driver may be intoxicated. I immediately pulled onto Ridge Rd and got behind the Corvette. As I was following the Corvette east on Ridge, another vehicle with a male driver pulled up to the side of me and shouted out the window, "That guy is drunk". I then observed the Corvette to weave from the outside lane to the center lane, without signaling. The vehicle then abruptly swerved back into the outside lane, without signaling. The vehicle then came to

It is fascinating to me that one's body, even as a newbown, has strategies in place to protect itself when necessary. For example, "if nutrition is temporality inadequate, the body stops growing but not the brain," a phenomenon called head-sparing (124). On a different note, I did not realize before reading the chapeter that there are different types of learning that are dependent on experience. There is a difference between experience-expectant brain function, which is "brain function that requires certain basic common experiences in order to develop normally," and experience-dependent brain function, "brain function that depends on particular, variable experiences and that therefore may or may not develop in a particular infant," according to scientist William Greenough (131).

I have always had a passion and interest in working with the unknown. When I was in high school, I always made sure I was taking science classes that interested me, and would help me decide on what I wanted to major in college. I chose neuroscience as my major because it is a subject that continues to fascinate me. Neuroscience is the study of how the nervous system develops, its structure, and what it does. I want to focus on the brain and its impact on behavior and cognitive functions. I want to go into clinical neuroscience (looking at the disorders of the nervous system) or cognitive neuroscience, which studies the higher cognitive functions and underlying neural bases. With a neuroscience major, I would like to pursue a career in clinical research, do research for the National Institute of Health, work for the CDC and specialize in neurological disease, and/or run a clinical research project in another country. I want to pursue a career in one of these areas because I want to dedicate my knowledge, skills, and time to helping people and the world of science. I want my work to make a positive impact on society and be beneficial for the forthcoming generations. I want to help people and discover new things that will help those in need. I am motivated every day to continue working hard by realizing there are still more things to be discovered and that it could be done by me.

There are many thoughts or factors that go into how we judge and treat others that we may not be aware of. The book breaks them down into two categories unconscious and conscious thoughts. Our unconscious brain is gathering information from a very small age and continues to constantly work to help you understand what is going on in the world around you. Our unconscious brain is programed to stereotype from birth. An example of this is how infants at three months can distinguish faces of different races from their own. They tend to prefer the faces of their own race over others which was determined by how long the infant looks at the different faces (p128). This was not taught by a parent or others which brings to our attention that some stereotyping

Unfortunately, medical professionals must deal with life and death scenarios on a daily basis but the world without these individuals would be a much different environment. The scenario of the doctor suspecting that the patient on a ventilator is brain dead, requires several ethical decisions before proceeding. Families of a patient who is brain dead must deal with the reality of their loss and should be allowed to process the information appropriately.

Language is perhaps the most concrete way of differentiating between humans and animals. Broca's area-- the center of the brain dedicated to processing speech and language in humans-- is larger in our species than in any other animal. Studies in childhood development have found that young children are able to assimilate language at an alarming rate when compared with other species. Young children start learning how to make vowel sounds and respond to their parents at five months of age and are able to produce basic words, as well as understand the concepts they represent, at around a year of age. We learn to speak before we learn to walk or eat on our own; clearly, language is an integral part of the human experience.

This article from Scientific American Mind gives readers explanation as to why babies do not come out of the womb talking like adults. Also, the author discusses how babies learn to talk and the steps they take to achieve their highest language capacity. The article provides two main theories as an answer to the age-old question about baby language and how it becomes adult language. The mental hypothesis is simply that babies are not cognitively ready to speak like adults. Their brains have not made the necessary connections to form words, let alone form full sentences with proper fluency and syntax like

While therapists and physicians write prescriptions for various ailments, everything from changing the morning routine to antidepressants and chemotherapy to aspirin, there is a change occurring within the confines of the brain. While it is much more difficult to precisely diagnose cognitive workings, good or bad, than it is to check physical fitness, the fact remains that there are multiple accounts from both patients and doctors as to changes in the brain’s functions, specifically after certain incidents. Just like a fall from a bike will make a person a bit more reluctant to attempt to ride that bike, or any other, again, when the functions of the mind are analyzed, the self-awareness it presents becomes an almost instant catalyst for change. People who have cancer are almost always changed cognitively as well as physically, for example. Facing mortality is a difficult thing that prompts a change in the person’s view of the world; what is worth getting upset over. When people attend therapy, of any kind, they look at themselves in a new light. They examine their own short-comings and cannot face away. When a person sees themselves the way other people see them, or simply face their issues, their perceptions change. When perceptions change, the areas of the brain that are functioning at certain times change as well. For example, a right-brain person sees a work of art and decides to attempt to view the painting, not for its meaning, for its proportions, the mathematics of

As a consequence of this brain damage, the brain is deprived of oxygen, which leads to many long-term effects of neurological and psychological issues (projectknown). Opiates also have some very harmful short-term effects such as euphoria followed by apathy, dysphoria, nausea/vomiting, pinpoint pupils, itchy skin, inattention to the surrounding environment, slowed thinking and movements, shorter attention span, memory impairments, garbled speech, coma, and drowsiness (projectknown).

After reading chapter 6, I decided to discuss how infants learn focusing on their cognitive development. Cognitive development focuses on four stages. The stages consist of the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational sage, and lastly the formal operational stage. In regards to infants being able to learn, I am going to tune into the first stage. The sensorimotor stage is where the infant constructs an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with physical actions. An infant progresses from reflexive, instinctual action at birth to the beginning of symbolic thought toward the end of the stage (Santrock p. 21).

Which is God’s preferred language, the children never spoke any language consequently all died in their childhood (van Cleve, 1972). This shows how powerful language is whether written or spoken, Perry (2002) stated, “Humankind’s transient but magnificent rebellion against nature is allowed by the brain. In ways not yet understood, activation of neural networks chains of neurons allow us to think, feel and act”. The brain is one of the most important organs in our body it controls our every move, it is our brain which allows us to laugh, cry, hope, and function in humane ways. It is the brain that mediates our humanity, the brain’s main concern is survival of the species (Perry, 2002). Basically it is our brain that is keep us

Music can affect people in different ways. Like what Deane Alban said "music can affect the brain positive in many ways music can make you happier, smarter, and a little bit more productive at any age. Music can help you with your IQ the brain connectivity and test scores and spatial intelligence which means helps people to understand how things work together. Also if you play instrument or you just listen to music it will impact you brain health and function".