ability to empathize on a cognitive level‚ but that they lack the ability to necessarily empathize on an emotional level‚ especially with emotions such as fear and sadness. I would be interested in further research determining if this may be due to amygdala dysfunction‚ since that area of the brain is related to fear responses. Since psychopaths show lower levels of fear themselves‚ this may be an inhibiting factor in their ability to empathize with others‚ since one cannot empathize with emotions
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Hippocampus: plays important roles in the understanding of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and navigation to places. 3. When underclassmen stress about their regents in June and start to panic: Amygdala‚ Pre-frontal lobes (frontal lobes) and Hypothalamus. Amygdala: Shown in research to perform a primary role in the processing of memory and emotional reactions. How underclassmen process their emotional reactions such as panicking and stressing out. Frontal Lobes: helps with
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cerebellum and medulla. Cerebellum The "little brain" at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input and coordinating movement output and balance. Limbic System Doughnut-shaped neural system including the hippocampus‚ amygdala‚ and hypothalamus‚ located
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thinking process comes‚ to determine the trouble. The messages sent through the amygdala which identifies the probable outcome of the trouble (Lightman‚ S. 2008). Amygdala is a part of the limbic system or called key emotional centre of the brain (Tortora and Derrickson 2009)‚ It is also called the nuclei of the hypothalamus which is the critical part of the brain that coordinate an activities in response of stress. The amygdala triggers hypothalamus to bring messages through sympathetic centers in the
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Public Speaking: Crash and Burn‚ or Speak and Learn There are a number of "creative" tips that are taught to people who are nervous to speak in public. These creative bits of advice designed to help you get over being scared are not only stupid‚ but will likely hurt you and make you feel worse. Picture the Audience naked. This seemingly pornographic advice refers to imagining your audience in some position that lowers their perceived power. Other variations on this theme include‚ "Picture
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Relationship and Differences between the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems 73211 Brain & Behaviour Assignment Two The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand 3264 words CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS “From the brain‚ and from the brain alone‚ arise our pleasure‚ joys‚ laughter‚ and jokes‚ as well as our sorrows‚ pains‚ griefs‚ and tears. Through it‚ in particular‚ we see‚ hear‚ and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful‚ the bad from the good‚ the pleasant from the unpleasant
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signified meaning of the stimuli making a person reach beyond the boundaries of the known idea of language to idealize what could become of it. The mind is a system that interprets language and this in turn affects our actions because of the way the amygdala and other information processing structures configure the information processing systems inside the
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arousal. • More activity in amygdala when watching fearful (vs. angry) faces • Negative emotions= right hemisphere positive emotions= left hemisphere Robert Zajonc: Emotions need no inferences; We can have emotional reactions apart from (and even before) we interpret a situation. Example: Participants subliminally primed with a happy face rate a subsequent ideograph as more positive than when primed with a sad face Speedy low road: fear stimulus thalamus amygdala fear response (bypasses
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Brain development throughout childhood The first eight years of a child’s life are not only the most important years of a child’s life‚ but also the most rapid period of human development throughout a human life. These years are critical to the emotional and physical growth of a child. By the age of four‚ half of a person’s intelligence potential has already been developed and early childhood experiences can have a lasting effect on personality‚ behavior‚ and learning. (Early‚ 2001) These first
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Causes An interaction between biophysical factors and traumatic situations may cause anxiety disorders. Neurotransmitters of the central nervous system like norepinephrine and serotonin‚ peptides like corticotropin-releasing factor are the major mediators for the cause of anxiety disorder. Biological Low levels of GABA‚ a neurotransmitter that reduces activity in the central nervous system‚ contribute to anxiety. A number of anxiolytics achieve their effect by modulating the GABA receptors
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