Why I Chose To Study Biology

Someone once said, “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” I use to think that I couldn’t take AP because it was too difficult. But I’m willing to prove to myself and others that just because something is considered hard, doesn’t automatically mean it’s not for you or that you’re going to fail. I want to take AP Biology because I want to challenge myself, of the benefits, and for the experience. I believe that hard work comes with great rewards that are life changing.

The idea of being a marine biologist attracts me surely because it seems like an intriguing job; however, it was when I had done the research necessary to complete the business portion of this project, it drew to a conclusion: me becoming a marine biologist may not be worth it.

To me, psychology is one of the most important studies. Being human is one thing that is shared by the entire world, and understanding how our minds work brings us steps closer to one an

Psychology is a discipline that involves monitoring mental processes and behaviour scientifically. Psychologists try to delve into the basic functions of a person and animals cerebral activity. This usually involves studying relationships, emotions, personality and many more areas of a person or animals day to day life. Psychology tends to steer towards finding reasons for a person or animals actions in an attempt to resolve them.

Biological psychology, of biopsychology, is the application of the principles of biology to the study of mental processes in terms of bodily mechanisms. The view that psychological processes have biological (or physiological) correlates, is the basic assumption of the whole field of biological psychology. Biological psychology is a hopeful domain, one that has much to offer in terms of improving the quality of life of the healthy as well as those suffering from disorders. It also contributed important therapeutic data on a variety of conditions, including: Parkinson 's Disease, Alzheimer 's Disease, Clinical depression, Schizophrenia and a lot others. Humans have very complex nervous system, they use neurons and neurotransmitters to make the highest active communication network throughout the body. “most of the body’s neurons are found in the central nervous system(CNS), which consists of the brain and spinal cord” (psychology 5th edition). “Neuroscience emphasizes that the brain and nervous system are central to understanding behavior, thought, and emotion. (Van Horn, 2014; Zhao & others, 2014). Therefore, for biological psychologist all that is psychological is first physiological. All thoughts, feeling & behavior ultimately have a biological cause.” We are benefited from biological approach for diagnosing and treating human brains Ex. Schizophrenia. Scientists are also able to create medications for different types of illnesses. Besides having psychologists

Ever since I was in middle school I knew what I wanted to be and that is a doctor. Ever since that day my mind hasn’t faltered and I’ve been doing everything I can to get me there. My first step was going to a medical magnet high school which I did. In my high school I took classes such as AP Biology that really interested me. The great opportunities for research at Dartmouth for undergraduates would definitely help me get there because I would actually be doing what I love while opening my doors to even more opportunities.

The nervous system is one of the most important organ systems in the body. It is in charge of all of the things that happen within the body. Being responsible for receiving sensory input from internal and external stimuli, integrating and processing information, and generating output, it would be hard to survive without a nervous system; however, there are different types of nervous systems in various organisms. Humans, cnidarians, flatworms, and annelids all have very diverse nervous systems. There are similarities and differences in each of these beings.

Whether it is the study of biopsychology and other fields of psychology or neuroscience, all psychologists and scientists are trying to understand the functions of the brain. The body and mind connection and how it reacts to certain behaviors or illnesses. Most all psychological functioning can be reduced to underlying brain processes. This should serve as reason alone as to why biology plays an important part in the study of psychology. Psychological factors play a role in whether a person develops a mental illness and in how well they recover from a mental illness, yet biological and genetic risk factors, or predispositions, are

College has always seemed like a million years away, however I recently was granted acceptance into my dream school and realized that I would be going to college in less than one year. Although I am extremely excited that I will be going to one of the top universities in nation next year, the University of Michigan, my family cannot help but worry about the financial burden of college and the future of medical school. I truly hope that within the next four years I will be able to reach my academic goals of going to medical school and in the future become a doctor. I know that this is a challenging and long road that will come with a lot of struggles and I want to make my financial situation the least of my issues. I believe that I will be

Our focus for this week’s lab was the vertebrate nervous system. The nervous system is composed of two divisions called the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Within these two divisions there are three types of neurons that allow us to recognize changes in our environment and help us to respond accordingly. The three neurons that are found are called sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons.

There are various reasons as to why I choose to major in biomedical engineering at Drexel University, among them include simple academic interests to life changing events that occurred in my life.

Cnidarians do not have a central nervous system (no local concentration of nerve cells, no brain), but the anemones simple differentiated nervous system works much the same. Arrangements of nerve cells within a loose network called nerve nets process and respond to stimuli much like a brain would. For example, in response to stimuli, nerve cells emit electrical impulses through the nerve net to all parts of the anemone’s body, causing contractions in the anemone’s muscles. The result is movement.

Over the years I have thought of many different careers and majors that I believed I should do. Most of the time they were based on what I saw other people, who I looked up to doing. My cousin Courtney was a lifeguard, so I wanted to be a lifeguard, my mom was a nurse, so I wanted to work in the medical field. Then I would be watching sporting events with my dad, and I wanted to be a sports journalist/reporter. It wasn’t until high school that I really started to look at what I liked to do and what I was good at.

The Biological Perspective: This is the study of exactly how the physical events within the physical body interact with the events in the external environment. This is expressed by our perceptions, memories, behaviors and interactions with everything around us. We can think about our heredity and genetic makeup and the influences that has on each one of us as an individual. Then think about the stress of poor health and illness and how we may express our emotions with those around us. Since we are diverse as individuals we rely on our physiological make up and the stimuli of our environment to adapt to each situation. This human biology helps us to constantly adapt and survive in an ever-changing world.

Biological psychology easily includes the framework for everything that happens to our bodies on a molecular level. It has a relationship with our biological, physiological, biochemistry and neuroscience function; some can argue this is the single most important aspect of the human psychology. On a very molecular level we have neurons, and these are the type of cells