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Background: The primary experiments that this proposal hopes to build upon were carried out in 2011 and the results published in a journal entry titled “Google effects on memory: Cognitive consequences of having information at our fingertips”. Through Stroop tests and tests for information recall, the researchers concluded that participants did demonstrate a reliance on transactive memory (Sparrow, Liu & Wegner, 2011). However, they did not adequately show that the rise in internet and search engine use

Perceptions Remain Unchanged Marie de France, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Pearl Poet share one important personal commonality—they all are products of the Medieval Period. During this time, men hold the power and dominate all aspects of everyday life. Women are suppressed and are expected to support men by learning and performing wifely duties, and attending to the needs of the men close to them. There is no opportunity for women to place themselves in positions of authority or influence without a

The exploration of neurotoxicants in the work place is undeniably imperative. Thus, standardized testing is often required to delineate psychiatric patients from those who are suffering with neurological impairments due to such neurotoxicants. Although there has been a recent increase in the literature on adverse occupational neurobehavioral effects, there remains to be room for improvement. Bowler and Lezak (2015) have systematically examined the common neurotoxicants found in various work sites

Stories of the ‘psychopath’ are often intriguing to individuals in the general population as they receive exhaustive media coverage and are the basis for many interesting story lines in books, television and movies. The idea of the ‘psychopath’ is usually misunderstood and merged with other dispositions such as Anti-Social Personality Disorder (ASPD), but these concepts are two distinct entities. Defining a ‘psychopath’ is a difficult task. Frist, psychopathy is a trait and not a disorder (Strickland

Developmental psychology focuses mainly on development during childhood because it is the period when most change is occurring biologically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. Amongst these areas of developmental psychology, I will focus on cognitive development in children between the ages of 1 and 4. In adulthood, cognitive performance is correlated with the amount of sleep. Sleep allows for consolidation of memory and neural mechanisms (Bernier,2013). Therefore, an increase in sleep duration

What is Emotional and Cognitive Sensitisation? By Carl Harris | Submitted On June 11, 2010 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook 1 Share this article on Twitter 2 Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon 1 Share this article on Delicious 1 Share this article on Digg 2 Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Carl Harris Sensitisation 'Sensitisation ' describes

In this experiment, the participants were tested on both conditions, which are congruent trials and also the incongruent trials. I used within subject experimental design to find the p-value under the assumption that the difference between the congruent and incongruent conditions are only happening due to random chance. In the simulation, I put all the data of the incongruent reading time (seconds) in the group A and all the data of the congruent reading time (seconds) in the group B. Then, I run

Executive Function (EF) refers to higher-level cognitive processes that underlie goal-directed thought and behavior (Faja, Lecture 9, slide 4). Neuroimaging studies have revealed that the neural underpinning of EF is based in the prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate (Faja, Lecture 9, slide 44). It follows that the developmental trajectory of EF concur with the development of the prefrontal cortex. EF emerges fairly early during infancy, develops rapidly during childhood, and continue to mature

Introduction Obesity is a significant public health problem. Its prevalence in the United States estimated to be 35.1% in 2011–2012 (6291981) and 33.7 in 2014 (http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A900A?lang=en) It is well known that obesity leads to multiple medical conditions (17036573). Diabetes, hypertension, and coronary artery disease are comorbidities associated with obesity (Must A, Spadano J, Coakley E, et al. The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity. JAMA 2006;295:1549–56

Bilingualism has been commonly used in scientific and common nomenclature to refer to the knowledge and/or use of two languages, though the specifics of the definition have been widely debated (e.g. Altarriba & Heredia, 2008; De Groot & Kroll, 1997; Grosjean, 2010). In fact, one half (Grosjean, 2010) to two-thirds (Walraff, 2000) of all people in the world have been estimated to routinely use more than one language in everyday communicative contexts. Given this global linguistic profile, it has