tasks (2010). Tse and his researchers conducted a study to see whether or not individuals with dementia had more trouble with attention tasks than that of younger adults and healthy older adults. The three attention tasks that were looked at included Stroop‚ Simon‚ and switching tasks‚ all of which require full cognitive ability. The results of their study indicated that individuals who were clinically diagnosed with dementia overall had about twice as many errors when it take to each of these three
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Consciousness Awareness of the environment‚ ones own existence‚ sensations‚ thoughts States of Consciousness Distinctive or discrete patterns in the function of consciousness Biological Rhythms Endogenous cycles Bio Rhythms: endogenous rhythms are systematic changes in the brain’s function that are vastly internal brain mechanisms. One of the things that does alter conscious states are actually these bio rhythms. 1. Circadian 24hr. cycle. Sleep‚ temperature 2. Infradian
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Cited: Ayme‚ Dumas‚ and Pascal Huguet. “Social Context Effects in the Stroop Task: When Knowledge of One’s Relative Standing Makes a Difference‚” Current Psychology Letters 2.16 (2005): n Calhoun‚ C. (1992). Social change. In E. F. Borgatta & M. L. Borgatta (Eds.)‚ Encyclopedia of Sociology (vol “Dolly Parton.” BrainyQuote
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Bette Maisel Cognitive Psychology Response paper April 10‚ 2012 Working Memory Load and Temporal Myopia in Dynamic Decision Making by Darell Worthy and A. Ross Otto Bette.Maisel@gmail.com Temporal Myopia is our brains inability to make long term decisions. Our country is in massive debt. The polar ice caps are melting because of our own poor environmental decisions. The healthcare system in the United States
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Jorge Garcia believes that the term “racism” is defined as an ill-will‚ a lack of benevolence‚ which is morally wrong. Simply‚ racism is created from hatred that originates in one’s heart. He describes this animosity with his coined phrase‚ the “volitional account of racism” (Garcia 251). Two that disagree with Garcia’s definition are Luc Faucher and Edouard Machery‚ whom take a psychological view‚ and state that racism is based off an “implicit racial bias‚” that “people are not aware of having”
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Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. ISSN 0077-8923 A N N A L S O F T H E N E W Y O R K A C A D E M Y O F SC I E N C E S Issue: Social Neuroscience: Gene‚ Environment‚ Brain‚ Body Social isolation John T. Cacioppo‚1 Louise C. Hawkley‚1 Greg J. Norman‚1 and Gary G. Berntson2 1 Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience‚ University of Chicago‚ Chicago‚ Illinois. 2 Department of Psychology‚ Ohio State University‚ Columbus‚ Ohio Address for correspondence: John T. Cacioppo‚ Center for Cognitive and Social
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11/28/2012 Ch 14: Personality 1. What is it? 2. Freud’s theory 3. Behavior theory 4. Biological theory 5. Humanistic theory Rosellini PSY 101 Ch 14 1 Personality An individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavior across a wide variety of situations. Personality theories: – A bit of history Galen – Psychoanalytic – Behavioral – Biological – Humanistic Rosellini PSY 101 Ch 14 2 A bit of history: Galen 130-200AD 130Personality Choleric Melancholic Phlegmatic Sanguine &
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Life during the Nazi Regime Era had many stages. There were times when people felt safe and then chaos exploded in front of them. People could be living a life of luxury and the next day everything could be taken from them including their loved ones. One of the major steps the Nazi Regime did to organize their control and start the seclusion of the non-Aryan people were the use of the ghettos. One of the most famous ghettos was the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Warsaw was the capital of Poland and
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I. History of Poland After the Partitions of Poland (1772-1795)‚ which had decreased the size of the country‚ giving most of the land to Russia‚ Prussia‚ and Austria-Hungary. The First World War provided a practical chance for Poland to restore its independence. The powers‚ which had separated the country more than one hundred years earlier‚ were fighting on opposite sides. Germany with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the Central Powers) fought Imperial Russia allied with France and Great Britain
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Schlagman‚ S.‚ Foley‚ K.‚ & Kornbrot‚ D. E. (2009). Consistency of flashbulb memories of September 11 over long delays: Implications for consolidation and MacKay‚ D. G.‚ & Ahmetzanov‚ M. V. (2005). Emotion‚ memory and attention in the taboo stroop paradigm: An experimental analogue of flashbulb memories Talarico‚ J. M.‚ & Rubin‚ D. C. (2003). Confidence‚ not consistency‚ characterizes flashbulb memories
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