Name: Date: A.P. Psychology Unit 3: Biological Bases of Behavior Project: 3-D Brain Model Assignment: Individually or with a partner‚ create a three-dimensional model of the human brain. You may use your textbooks‚ the internet‚ as well as your own creativity and originality. Your model should be to scale - approximately the size of the human brain. You may use any materials that you choose (with the exception of perishable food) to complete this task. The goal of this assignment is
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PsychSim 5: Brain and Behavior 21 PsychSim 5: BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR Name: _____________________________________ Section: ________________________ Date: In this activity you will take a tour of the human brain and explore the major brain regions to discover the functions of each region or area. Functional Specialization • In terms of brain function‚ what is functional specialization? Functional specialization‚ each function or capability of the nervous system is controlled by
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How one’s body reacts to change can be called stress. These changes can come from feeling‚ situation‚ and people. For example‚ going to a new school is a change that can cause stress. There are many techniques to dealing with stress. The importance of handling stress is very serious‚ because stress affects the body in not only mentally but sometimes physically. Teen stress can be caused by pressure‚ insecurities‚ bottled up emotions‚ changes and sometimes just life and handling it. Teens deal
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Introduction: Like most people‚ you already know that smoking is bad for your health. But do you really understand just how dangerous smoking really is? Tobacco contains nicotine‚ a highly addictive drug that makes it difficult for smokers to kick the habit. Tobacco products also contain many poisonous and harmful substances that cause disease and premature death. Did you know that out of a group of 1000 smokers (age 30)‚ that a full quarter of them (250!) will die of smoking-related illnesses prior
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As an English assignment I was told to record a speech of one of my ’pet peeves’. It was only to be 5 minutes long and have three main points. This discouraged me a great deal as if you take any one of my ’pet peeves’ and I could rant for at least a half an hour on each‚ if not more. Much less I was not about to change my way of speaking in complete and absolute monotone just to sound more enthusiastic as suggested. I am not an enthusiastic person‚ it’s just not going to happen. After posting the
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BLUE BRAIN Paper Presentation ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATION Advantages: 1. We can remember things without any effort. 2. Decision can be made without the presence of a person. 3. Even after the death of a man his intelligence can be used. 4. The activity of different animals can be understood. That means by interpretation of the electric impulses from the brain of the animals‚ their thinking can be understood easily. 5. It would allow the deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation
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February 7‚ 2014 English 1120 Brain Damage Caused By Heavy Marijuana Use " There is always the argument that marijuana is not harmful like other drugs and that it is okay to use it. A study conducted by a team of researchers from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2009 may prove those people wrong. The study showed that young teens who are heavy marijuana smokers during the adolescent stage of growth can actually harm and disrupt the growth of the brain. ScienceDaily released an article
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Comp. 1101 April‚ 19 2013 Blame the Eyes and the Brain The human eye and brain are two of the most extrodinary and vauleable organs in the body. The eye gives people the ability to perform daily tasks and to explore the world around them. The brain gives people the ability to feel emotions‚ to reason‚ and to conform. Vision‚ is an occuring process that needs constant interactions between the eye‚ the nervous system‚ and the brain. When a person looks at an object‚ they are actually seeing
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history has been closely related to music and we all know the emotional impact music has on people’s moods and how moods influence the impression or interpretation of music. So what is it that makes people emotionally respond to music? What parts of the brain fire when listening to certain types of music? Why is it that when you hear a particular song it strikes up a distant memory? Can music help restore some of the abilities in neurological patients? These are some questions that the cognitive neuroscience
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America is one of the leading industrialized countries in the world; America’s teens still have the most pregnancies‚ births‚ and abortions in the world. As the nation steps into the 21st century‚ “ The rise of ‘sexting’ and ‘hook up’ culture among teens” (Clemmitt‚ Marcia) promotes high levels of sexual activity within middle schools and high schools. Also mass amounts of sexual content are found in teen’s favorable music‚ online videos‚ and movies‚ which casually promotes sexual activity. “ A third
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