Subjects, how many, and how were they selected:
There were 38 students (23 females, 15 males; mean age 5 22.62 years)
From Freneau and Bartram we can learn the positive effects of nature on our well-being. They believed that exposure to natural environments improved our cognitive performance because of the connection it gave us to a higher power. After reading their works, I can certainly say that I have learned something and that is that humans can benefit from spending more time with nature.…
The Nature Cure, written by James Hamblin for the October 2015 issue of The Atlantic, addresses a relatively new form of medicine: ecotherapy. Hamblin explains that ecotherapy is a form of therapy that uses nature and the outdoors as a form of treatment for physical or mental ailments, and he provides evidence that supports its practice. My analysis is based on Hamblin’s thesis, organization, style of writing, use of evidence, and design/visual features. Using plenty of evidence and logical reasoning, he explains how ecotherapy can be beneficial and supports the idea well.…
Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you analyze forms of simple stimulus learning. As a part of your analysis, you must address the following items:…
C. Examines how physiology and biology interact with the environment to impact and determine our behavior and mental processes…
In this paper the author will analyze how neuro processes affect behavior and impact the field of biological psychology. The author will also address the role of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, synaptic transmission, and receptors in producing and regulatory behavior.…
1. a 17 year old is sleeping and remembes a distinct dream: Pons, thalamus and cerebral cortex.…
In his article he claims that, “Studies at the University of Illinois show that time in a natural setting significantly reduces symptoms of attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder in children as young as age five” (Louv 5). This illustrates that nature can be helpful for kids with disorders like hyperactivity because it soothes them and reduces their stress levels. Studies have also shown that kids that don’t spend a lot of time outside have greater psychological and physical health problems, like obesity. On the other hand kids who have and outdoor environment have an increase in self-esteem, problem solving, and a greater motivation to learn. I see the good effects of nature in one of my young siblings because he tends to be very hyperactive and when he goes to play outside I see a change in his mood and behavior, he’s calmer and nicer when he’s playing outside. I’ve also see the effects of kids not spending too much time outside and i see it everyday, I see children playing on an ipad or a parent's phone instead of interacting with their friends! Lastly, I also see the obesity problem in kids everyday, I do think that the obesity problem is being caused by not spending time outdoors because when you're outdoors you’re doing some sort of physical activity and indoors you’re just sitting watching tv, eating, and sleeping. Nature impacts kids in all sorts of ways, but the beneficial impact should be enough to get kids to go…
The subjects picked were fifty-nine females and thirteen male. All were students taking courses at New York University, and were told to participate in an experiment, which was a course requirement.…
Attention is something everyone has, yet it has different varying degrees of how it is used consciously and unconsciously. Attention as defined by the American Psychological Association is a state of focused awareness on a subset of the available perceptual information. When people attend to the information consciously it is known as the top-down process and when information grabs our attention that is otherwise known as the bottom-up process. Since every person is diverse their attention span varies too. When it comes to children and adults there is the possibility that the ability to be attentive may be different in terms capacity. One of the few types of attentions is categorized as divided attention. When defining divided attention it…
This study investigated the effects of displaced objects and spatial reorganization on habituation of exploratory behavior. The subjects, rats, each individually spent 5 minutes in an open field for 6 trials. Throughout the study, exploratory behavior was measured in the number of contacts the subject made, the number of ambulations, and contact time (seconds). Trials 1-5 were mainly used to familiarize the subject with its surroundings, naturally leading to decreasing amounts of exploratory behavior. Trial 6 involves the same routine, except displaced objects are introduced in an attempt to renew exploratory behavior and promote the building up of environmental maps and representations. Additionally, the measured behavior served as a way to compare individual trials with the averages across the experiment. Specifically, in a combined study of 24 rats, the resulting mean number of contacts, ambulations, and contact time at least either suggested exploratory behavior was renewed or guaranteed it. Hence, the results supported the hypothesis that spatial reorganization of familiar objects can renew exploratory behavior, despite time spent in the habituation phase.…
Unfortunately, American children spend only minutes a day playing and learning outdoors which presents a new educational challenge for our country. The report examines the impact of outdoor and environmental education, outdoor time and nature study on student motivation, effectiveness at learning, classroom behavior, focus and standardized test scores.…
Five or six years ago, I attended a lecture on the science of attention. A philosopher who conducts research over in the medical school was talking about attention blindness, the basic feature of the human brain that, when we concentrate intensely on one task, causes us to miss just about everything else. Because we can't see what we can't see, our lecturer was determined to catch us in the act. He had us watch a video of six people tossing basketballs back and forth, three in white shirts and three in black, and our task was to keep track only of the tosses among the people in white. I hadn't seen the video back then, although it's now a classic, featured on punk-style TV shows or YouTube versions enacted at frat houses under less than lucid…
psychology students (251 women with the mean age 22.08 and 94 men with the mean age 22.64)…
However, part studies have shown that exposure to green space reduces stress, boosts health and makes us less vulnerable to depression. The findings come from the brain scans of 32 health volunteers from urban and oral areas. Dr Jens Prussoner of the Douglas Mental Health University institute in Quebec ,who helped carry out the study have said “previous findings have shown that the risk for anxiety disorder is 21% higher than people for the city who also have 39% increased mood disorder, pollution ,toxins ,overcrowded areas and noise could contribute ”he said.…
Butryn, T.M, Furst, D. M. (2003). The effects of park and urban settings on the…