Motivation and Eating Healthy Psychologists describe motivation or goals as cognitive representations of a desirable outcome that move a person into action. Dieting‚ eating healthy‚ exercising‚ and achieving good looks and health are all related to the goal of weight-control. A person who is motivated by food is also motivated to by other related goals‚ such as eating at a restaurant‚ opening the refrigerator‚ and opening a bag of chips. In order to maintain a healthy weight‚ people will set
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Tittle: The Stroop Effects theories and explanations Jonathan James Greenriver Community College Tittle: The Stroop Effects theories and explanations Research The research conducted is to present an observation of the participating subject’s behaviors during the test taking and then to make interferences from their behaviors to explain what is going on behind the scenes (mental processes). The subjects involved in this experiment are from three different age groups. Respectably
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Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain 1 of 11 http://www.pnas.org/content/107/30/13485.full Top Abstract Model: Deriving the Network Description Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences www.pnas.org (/) > Current Issue (/content/107/30.toc) > vol. 107 no. 30 > Results Dharmendra S. Modha‚ 13485–13490 Discussion (/content Acknowledgments Footnotes Dharmendra S. Modha (/search?author1=Dharmendra+S.+Modha&sortspec=date&submit=Submit)
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Brain Mechanisms of Fear Extinction: Historical Perspectives on the Contribution of Prefrontal Cortex Francisco Sotres-Bayon‚ Christopher K. Cain‚ and Joseph E. LeDoux What brain regions are involved in regulating behavior when the emotional consequence of a stimulus changes from harmful to harmless? One way to address this question is to study the neural mechanisms underlying extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning‚ an important form of emotional regulation that has direct relevance to the treatment
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The effects of cannabis Cannabis is a chemical compound found in the flowers‚ leaves or extracts of cannabis plant known as marijuana. Smoking marijuana releases psychoactive chemical (tetrahydrocannabinol)‚ which is absorbed into the bloodstream via lungs. This causes both psychological and physiological effects on the human body. Effects of cannabis generally range from 10 minutes to 8 hours‚ depending on the potency of the dose and personal tolerance to the drug’s various effects.-(1) When THC enters
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Localization refers to the specific area of the brain that is responsible for a specific function. In the 1960s‚ Roger Sperry and his colleagues experimented with the split brain to determine each hemispheres function‚ this knowledge had previously been undiscovered and he went on to receive a Nobel Prize in 1981. A split brain is a scenario in which the Corpus Callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree meaning the hemispheres cannot work in correlation with
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Mirror‚ Mirror on the Mind The sight of a stranger’s foot getting hammered induces an instant surge of sympathy within us. Watching a friend nauseate after eating something repulsive quickly causes our own stomachs to turn. This ability to understand and relate to another individual’s internal state has provided great motivation for research. One source of explanation arose from research on mirror neurons-which fire both during execution and observation of a behaviour (Rizzollati & Arbib‚ 1998)
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Self-control is the ability to control one’s emotions‚ behavior‚ and desires in order to obtain some reward‚ or avoid some punishment. Presumably‚ some reward or punishment is operating in the short term which precludes‚ or reduces‚ the later reward or punishment. In psychology it is sometimes called self-regulation. In behavior analysis Another view is that self-control represents the locus of two conflicting contingencies of reinforcement‚ which then make a controlling response reinforcing
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CT238/CU328 – Dementia Awareness 1. Understand what Dementia is 1.1 Explain what is meant by the term ‘Dementia’. A definition of the term ‘dementia’ is: A condition due to a disease of the brain‚ generally of a constant progressive quality‚ where there are many disturbances of higher cognitive functions. These include impairment of thinking‚ memory and orientation‚ learning ability‚ language judgement. The resulting disability depends on the interaction between the underlying disease process
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Critically evaluate to what extent the ‘somatic-marker hypothesis’ explains how decisions are made in the face of an uncertain outcome. In mind of Kim Sterelny’s (2007) statement that ‘Human Life is one long decision tree’‚ it is not surprising that there has been a vast amount of research into the process of how we evaluate the desirability of alternative choices and select a particular option. One area of research‚ of particular interest here‚ is Damasio’s Somatic Marker Hypothesis (SMH) (1991)
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