The year is divided into four seasons. Everybody enjoys the different seasons in their own way, but everyone is happy with the onset of winter or summer. Winter is the coldest season and occurs between autumn and spring. Summer is the warmest season. It happens between Spring and Autumn during the months of June, July and August. Winter and summer are challenging to compare, although one can find a lot of positive qualities in both seasons of the year. Both […]
Kafka on the Shore is generally categorized into the genre of “magical realism”, which is defined as a blend of fantastical elements exposed into a natural, otherwise normal environment. The novel has a dream-like perception , and vibrates feelings of cafard, solidarity, and nostalgia which is consistent with several of the novels written by Haruki Murakami, the author of Kafka on the Shore. There is often a common theme of displacement, surreality and a blurred existentiality. In the novel Kafka […]
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Get help with your assignmentEvery human needs sleep to live. That is true with many other functions like drinking and eating. And just like drinking and eating, there is a certain limit we must meet in order to be considered healthy. For most people, it is recommended that they get around eight hours of sleep. Unfortunately, most people don’t meet that amount of time. Not only does this disrupt a basic function, but this also affects many other bodily activities or even parts of […]
Educational Psychology is a period of education. It is a science that supplements the course of schooling. It is a branch, a fragment of training. It depicts the conduct of the training and tries to clarify it as far as his inward urges, intentions, drives and the natural impacts to which he is subject. It is an investigation of kid’s psychological life in its different perspectives concerning its application to the instruction of the kid. Educational Psychology furnishes the instructors […]
In The Giver, the author Lois Lowry illustrates that the most powerful way for a government to control or manipulate its people is by censoring their knowledge which eliminates their ability to question ideas or make their own choices surrounding the information is hidden from them. Restricting information takes away the power for people to make choices surrounding the knowledge that is taken away from them. After the Giver showed Jonas memories of colors, Jonas realizes, “‘But now that I […]
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales written by bestselling author of Awakenings and Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks, is a novel that addresses and highlights the various patients that the author himself dealt with over the course of being a neurologist. The book is divided into four parts: Losses, Excesses, Transports, and The World of the Simple. Within the parts are individual case histories of patients that Dr. Sacks’s encountered. Part one addresses losses, which […]
Within, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, doctor Oliver Sacks tells his experiences conducting a series of case studies and producing critiques for the medical community. Sacks states, “Neurology’s favorite word is ‘deficit’, denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function: loss of speech, loss of language, loss of memory, loss of vision, loss of dexterity, loss of identity and myriad other lacks and losses of specific functions (or faculties)” (3). Sacks feels that the medical community, […]
“The functions of sleep are not fully understood or fully explained by science and this has led to the undervaluation of sleep by health professionals. Traditionally thought is that perhaps inactivity was a survival mechanism during the vulnerable period of night or a way to conserve energy, but more recent research suggests that sleep is a complex combination of restoration for both the body and more importantly, the brain (Why Do We Sleep, Anyway?). There are 4 stages of sleep, […]
A growing problem of sleep deprivation among children and adolescents has made way for an ever-growing issue for debate in the world of psychology. With continuous distractions and responsibilities at home, school, and any extracurricular activities, children and adolescents are becoming more and more sleep deprived, which ultimately hurts them in the long run. Especially nowadays, it is so easy for students to interact with one another without actually being in each other’s presence. Video games and electronic entertainment are […]
In John Locke’s “Of Identity and Diversity,” Locke makes the following claim: person X at time t2 is identical to person Y at time t1 if and only if person X at time t2 remembers what person Y at time t1 saw and did. In this paper, I will explain this claim and show how Locke uses it to develop his theory of personal identity. Then, I will show that Locke’s theory does not work because of 1) its failure […]
He believed that you are the same person for whatever time span your memories could go back. Without analyzation the theory may appear to seem plausible, but I will dismiss this by exploiting his lacking thoughts by using Thomas Reid’s … to support my claim. Before determining what criteria would be used to answer if an individual was the same over time, Locke explored other choices. He initially hoped to check whether sameness of body could be a good criterion […]
There are numerous views on what it means to have an individual’s identity and what exactly “makes you the person you are.” Personal identity has been a major topic in philosophy ever since the beginning, and the most considerable thinkers have had something to say about it. John Perry discusses four different theories of personal identity: body theory, soul theory, memory theory, and brain theory. The psychological theory in my opinion makes the most sense when trying to understand the […]
We don’t know what to expect coming into a world that you know nothing about as a newborn baby. But as you grow older, you are pursuing your purpose for coming into the world. You live, you learn, and you experience things some may be good, some may be bad. So, you have to make the most of it and live life with no regrets. Memories make life what it be and they are very important for understanding a person’s […]
Our understanding of inheritance of genes goes all the way back to 1866. Gregor Mendel was the first scientist to study and popularize the concept of recessive and dominant alleles in genetic inheritance. Although the mechanisms have been studied for many years, our understandings of the genetic contributing factors of Down syndrome are incomplete. However, an extra copy of chromosome 21 is thought to be the most common cause of Down syndrome. This results from meiosis incorrectly partitioning chromosome 21 […]
Lois Lowry’s The Giver provides the reader with many examples regarding Jonas’ coming of age within a society where the expectation is that rules passed down to a new generation will be followed. He is introduced as an 11 year old boy who matures emotionally, morally and spiritually throughout the novel. Jonas is initially depicted much like the other children in his community blindly following the rules of his society. He soon changes and moves out of the typical citizens […]
For most of their life, people with Down syndrome will go through years of physical therapy. Although this is an effective form of treatment, could there be a more effective form of Therapy? By looking at statistics as well as personal experiences, we can see that dance would be considered the better form of physical therapy for those with Down syndrome; This is important because we strive to better the lives of those with disabilities and encourage them to take […]
This experiment was designed to reflect reproducibility as a defining feature of science based on conducted replications several experimental and correlational published in psychological journals using original materials and high powered designs. It focuses on the role of explaining the reasons and the argument basing on making decisions when faced with the need to choose and make solutions by constructing facts that resolve the conflict and justify the made choice to the involved party. In this experiment, the role of […]
Over allocation of resources refers to the process in which resources are assigned excessively. In the field of information technology, the resources include software as well as hardware capacities for example data management, memory, and processing power. However, over allocation can also be defined as resources in which a lot of work or job have been assigned, a good example of such situation is whereby a processor tackles an excessive number of work commands. Information technology experts employ tools as […]
Advantages of learning languages In this globalized world that is fast paced and hyper connected, learning diverse languages equips one with several advantages. There are personal, social and cultural benefits that are associated with learning diverse languages. Individuals that learn many languages are able to boost their mental power. This is because earning a new language puts the brain into the task of recognizing new language through being able to express oneself through different ideas. This makes the brain into […]
On many occasions, I have found myself forgetting information I have read over and over again. I can relate my forgetfulness to retrieval failure where I have failed to recall certain information about a particular subject. This usually happens because of absence of cues as in cue-dependent forgetting. According to this mechanism, one lacks access to a specific memory amassed in the Long term memory (LTM) (Mathy & Jacob Feldman 362). Chunking can help to make good use of my […]
Media helped to make the differences in these memories not so different as their individual memories were influenced as they discovered more information from the media. Robert continued in saying, when I was finally able to go back to New York City, a city I had loved all my life, I have an image in my head that I will never get out. The towers weren’t there anymore, it was a painful thing to see, it was a frightening thing […]
Abstract The National Sleep Foundation’s Annual Sleep in America poll of 2018 showed that only ten percent of Americans rates sleep as a top priority. With all the literature that is taught about how vital sleep is to one’s health, these results were shocking. Sleep is an essential physiological need for survival. To be deprived of sleep has many unwanted effects on the body. Total sleep deprivation has been shown to negatively affect many physiological, cognitive, and behavioral measures within […]
Simply put, sleep deprivation occurs when an individual fails to get an appropriate amount of sleep according to their biological need. The amount of sleep required varies by person, but in general, adults need seven to eight hours and teenagers need about nine hours per night. In our busy world, many people fail to get enough sleep and suffer the consequences. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, sleep deprivation has many negative consequences both physiologically and psychologically including […]
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, more commonly known as ADHD, is an inheritable, meaning that it can run in families, developmental disorder. ADHD falls into a broad spectrum of neuro-developmental disorders and is typically characterized by hyperactivity, learning difficulty, inability to focus and/or sustain attention, and impulsiveness. Typically, ADHD is diagnosed around age 7, but it can actually manifest across the lifespan. In the United States of America alone, it is estimated that between 3-7% of all children are suffering from […]
Abstract This paper reports findings from several psychological journals that explain how self-esteem is not entirely based on a person’s childhood because humans ultimately have the free-will to choose how much they value themselves. The varying sections of this research will analyze the process of self-esteem development on the human brain, specifically in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), as well as the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) on self-esteem development. It will also focus on and social anxiety disorder […]
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams is classified as a Memory Play (Williams, 5). Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic (Williams, 5). Memories often are biased to what people want to remember, or how they want to remember. Tom Wingfield, the narrator of the play, explains that In memory, everything seems to happen to music (Williams, 5). All of the characters in the play have been in some way affected by […]
Abstract Stem cells are literally the gods of all cells. They have the potential to develop into so many different types of cells within the body. For many untreatable neurodegenerative disorders, stem cell research offers great promise and hope for a cure to these progressive diseases. Here we discuss what a stem cell is and the basic functions, how it can be used to help alleviate one of the largest symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, and research of stem cells on […]
Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined according to nih.gov. In the book The Giver, people have never experienced pain. In the community, there is no color, past, or pain. But a boy named Jonas can experience all of those things. The community should have pain, because it helps with growth, confidence, and connections with each people. People can have growth by learning from the pain. An example is Jonas is riding on his bicycle. Painfully […]
Have you ever been comfortably relaxing playing any video games during your free time and wondered what is happening to your body while playing ? Majority would say video games would rot your brain, make you lazy or even become violent,but studies and even myself say otherwise. Video-Games have become a major part of kid’s and young adult’s lives. It has enhanced their social skills,teamwork and strategizing abilities, along with improved brain speed, and multitasking skills. My goal in this […]
Traumatic head injury increases effect of Alzheimer disease which disrupts activity of neurotransmitters and electrical charges travel within cells. Alzheimer disease is characterized by synaptic loss and neuronal death with gross brain atrophy. Falls are common in older population which lead to prolong hospital stay and serious medical complications such as traumatic brain injury. Traumatic head injury cause brain tissue to swell which prevent fluids from leaving brain and broken pieces of skull can rupture blood vessels in head. Effect […]
