As a society today in 21st century America, humans are becoming more and more like the smartphones they carry around in their pockets, and the computers that lay dormant in backpacks as they shuffle from class to class or ride the subway to work. Technology is becoming more and more of a predominant factor in our every day lives. Think about it. We use technology everywhere, whether it be in school, at work, at home, or even in the car. In Richard Restak’s Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era and Bill Wasik’s…
1. Physically, the tenth parallel is a circle of latitude that runs across Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, South America, and Southeast Asia. Culturally, the tenth parallel is the front line where Christianity and Islam collide. 2.…
A world once colonized by exploration and discoveries is now a world colonized by digital objects glued to our hands and pockets. From typewriters to computers and laptops, telegrams and pay phones to digital cellphones; technology has evolved and conquered the world. It has changed life and making it easier to live. There is however, a downfall to technology that isn 't often seen, according to the Articles “Google is Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, “Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um... Focus”, by Alina Tugend, and “Just One More Game...: Angry Birds, Farmville, and other Hyper-addictive Stupid Games”, by Sam Anderson. These authors state the dangers of technology to our civilization.…
From birth, we are constantly reaching for anything that piques our interest, whether it be the faces of our parents or the unknown object standing before us. Installed in us from a young age, curiosity is the hunger—in the most literal sense—for knowledge. My curiosity for the human mind grew into a desire for the study of the it and human nature. (needs transition)I found myself questioning what it is that cultivates the emotions and behavior that emerge from our brain.…
Carl Zimmer, the author of this article, is a well-known science journalist and author. Within this article, Zimmer discusses what he has learned about the human brain, and in this paper, I summarize the main ideas and points that are brought up, while adding my own comments on its contents. The brain is known for being the most mysterious organ. Our current technology and methods of observation and experimentation are not advanced enough to unveil all that there is to know about it.…
The visual system has been shown to be more responsive and is especially sensitive to a special class of objects called faces. Recognition is defined as the ability to recognize different faces from one another in multiple situations. A key component of facial perception is a commonly known condition called prosopagnosia. This term ‘prosopagnosia’ described the condition that limits a person’s ability to recognize the face of others. This condition means that the process of non-facial recognition differs greatly from facial recognition.…
In the essay,Does the Internet Make You Dumber, by Nicholas Carr he analyzes the effects of internet usage on the brain. Carr begins his analysis with a quote from over 2000 years ago by a philosopher stating that “to be everywhere is to be nowhere”(2). Carr argues that people are capable of knowing many new things all at once with internet usage, but this does not have any positive aspects to the human mind. Carr continues with summaries of examples that prove his idea that the internet does not have any allow the mind to think critically. For example an article by a psychologist, Patricia Greenfield, in Science Magazine last year described how different activities such as playing video games, may increase visual skills but decrease in-depth thinking.…
The Causes of Synesthesia Kelsey Burge Blackburn College PY 101 Synesthesia is a condition in which a person perceives an object with more than one sense because the brain crosses paths between the regions that are responsible for distinguishing each sense. For example, when a person sees the letter Z, he may also see the color red in his mind. In addition, it is not guaranteed that two people with synesthesia, or synesthetes as they are called, will have the same sensations when observing objects (Hornik, 2001). It is estimated that 1 in every 2,000 people has synesthesia (Kher, 2001, 64). Although there are some ideas of what causes synesthesia, it will be difficult to recognize a clear cause because all synesthetes are affected on a sort…
Measuring Brain Activity to Reconstruct Visual Experiences The principle of perpetual evidence states that brain activity is not random, and that the processes we use in mental visualizations are used in visual perception as well. The firing of neurons that occurs when one imagines shooting a free throw are the same neurons that fire when actually doing so. The fact that brain activity is complex and calculated has helped scientists see how the brain functions, and what areas are associated with certain tasks or thoughts. Nishimoto et al conducted a thorough and unprecedented experiment that has helped many understand the functioning of the brain, specifically, how brain activity relates to the perception of visual information (1).…
In her essay, Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Focus, Alina Tugend discusses many effects of multitasking. We think that multitasking is a way to keep us more efficient, but in reality it may be doing just the opposite. Tugend says that,”psychologists, neuroscientists, and others are finding that it [multitasking] can put us under a great deal of stress and actually make us less efficient. It turns out that most of the time when we think we’re multitasking, we actually aren’t.…
Indirect realism as the more plausible perception theory Indirect realism is a more plausible theory of perception than direct realism. Direct realism was first described by Aristotle. He described how a seer learns about an object by directly seeing it impressed on the eye. In other words, it is where external material objects are directly experienced, without sense-data (Bernecker, 2008).…
The research I did for this assignment about multitasking took me across many aspects of this practice of during many actions at once. After reading the essay ‘Now, where was I? Oh, yes, multitasking’ by Ellen Goodman she had various intriguing points on the problems we encounter with multitasking in the modern days. In the essay, it references a research study by Clifford Nass from Stanford University. The research was conducted with 100 students to evaluate their effectiveness in numerous activates.…
Psychology is the scientific study of mental or behavioral characteristics of a single person or group. The theoretical perspective is one of the many perspectives of psychology which contains 7 different categories. Seven Perspectives The seven theoretical perspectives help define the way people act, feel, and think.…
Case Study of Cognitive Assessment Vickneswary D/O Jeraman TM15-10172 TMC Academy Module: CPSY Lecturer: Dr Eliza Berezina Date of Submission: July 3, 2015 Word Count: 1914 Abstract This paper is about cognition and methods of assessment to test the cognitive level of an individual. It is targeted on four main tests to evaluate the level of perception, attention, short term memory (STM) and long term memory (LTM) of a selected person. The four main tests are Muller-Lyer Illusion test to test the perception level, stroop effect to test the attention, remember 12 words task to test the STM and finally remember 10 pictures task to test the LTM.…
In this lab, you will investigate the behavior of the human nervous system and make observations of the special senses. Activity 1: Touch Receptors (worth 10 points total) List four sensations detected by the tactile receptors in the skin (1) Temperature (2) Touch (3) Pain (4) Wetness Get a volunteer to touch each of these locations on your body using the same pressure. Close your eyes and rank how sensitive each area is from 1 (low sensitivity) to 5 (high sensitivity).…