AP Psychology Brain Structure Review/ Study note | |Brain Structure |Location |Functions |Mal Functions |Disorders |Substructures | |CEREBRAL CORTEX (Cerebrum) |Frontal Lobe |At the front most region of |Decision making |Paralysis |ADHD |Prefrontal cortex |
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R.A.T.E Pg. 244 1 - Evaluate- In the article “What the Brain Says about Maturity”‚ the author gives you the main reason to support his claim by backing up his statement with proof and scientific discoveries. The author involves statements in his claim to back up his answer‚ he involves statements like how sixteen-years-olds are different medical wise but they are still immature criminal wise meaning they can get off the hook easier. “This is why 16-year-olds are just as competent as adults when
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She describes areas of the brain‚ such as Broca’s and Wernicke’s that are responsible for interpreting language. Additionally‚ she explores how narratives stimulate other areas of the brain not traditionally associated with language recognition. The research Murphy discusses in her article points out that metaphors were able to engage the sensory regions of the brain‚ whereas normal‚ less colorful‚ phrases did not. The brain instead treated the less colorful phrases as nothing
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The Illusion of the Capital Gains Tax Increase Policymakers and researchers have long been interested in how potential changes to the capital gains tax system affects the health of the overall economy. A capital gain is the increase in the value of a capital asset realized over its cost basis (Saxton). The lower tax rate for capital gains is the policy that the United States has followed from the inception of the income tax‚ a policy followed by almost every other advanced economy on earth. As numerous
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All people do not deal with traumatic brain injuries the same in the way that it takes people a different amount of time to recover than others and that it effects the patient’s qualities that they had prior to the injury differently. Traumatic brain injuries are common and they disable 150 million- 200 million people per year which is the leading cause of disability in people under 40 years old by injuring the frontal and temporal lobes. Recovery times are different for different people (most people
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Compare the Social Brain Hypothesis and the Visual Specialisation Hypothesis The aim of this essay is to investigate the two major theories trying to explain why do primates have large brains. Even since the seminar study of Jerison in 1973 it has been acknowledged that primate brains are unusually large for their body size. There are three main groups of theories giving more or less persuasive explanations of the evolution of large brains and high cognitive skills in primates. The first group
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can occur frequently and may cause serious damage. TBI can happen when a bump‚ jolt‚ blow‚ or any head injury causes damage to the brain. MIllions of people a year suffer brain injuries in the United States alone. More than half of those million incidents require the patient to be taken to a hospital because of the severity of the injury. Depending on how severe the injury is‚ it could cause serious brain damage and potentially be life threatening. Half of all TBIs occur
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Left brain VS Right brain Matthew Stafford Davenport University 10/25/2012 Right Brain Your brain processes and reacts to certain situations in many different ways. This is directly due to either being left brain or right brain. What is left brain or right brain you ask? People use either side to approach solutions to a variety of problems with different outcomes. People who are left brain tend to approach each problem with an analytical point of view. Right brain thinkers tend to
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Brain Disorders One out of five Americans struggle with a brain disorder. The brain is a fragile muscle which controls thoughts‚ memory‚ speech‚ and movement. Any form of distress to the brain can cause loss of functions we take for granted. Disorders can affect you physically or mentally. Mental disorders can affect your mood which results in depression‚ anxiety disorders‚ schizophrenia‚ eating disorders and addictions; physical disorders affect your daily tasks. Brain disorders are caused by genetics
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May 2005 Evolution of the brain and intelligence Gerhard Roth1‚2 and Ursula Dicke2 1 2 Hanse Institute for Advanced Study‚ D-27753 Delmenhorst‚ Germany Brain Research Institute‚ University of Bremen‚ D-28334 Bremen‚ Germany Intelligence has evolved many times independently among vertebrates. Primates‚ elephants and cetaceans are assumed to be more intelligent than ‘lower’ mammals‚ the great apes and humans more than monkeys‚ and humans more than the great apes. Brain properties assumed to be relevant
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