There are three major brain divisions. They are the cerebrum‚ the brainstem‚ and the cerebellum. The cerebrum contains 40% of the weight of the brain and is founded in the superior part of the brain. This portion of the brain has many functions and lobes which perform certain functions. The frontal lobe is involved with “activating and controlling both fine and complex motor activities.” This involves speech. It is also involved with the executive functions‚ such as reasoning and rationalizing‚ among
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Brain Structures and Functions Worksheet PSY/340 Version 3 1 University of Phoenix Material Brain Structures and Functions Worksheet Provide a brief description for each of the following functions: 1. Basal ganglia Controls cognition‚ movement coordination‚ voluntary movement. 2. Corpus collosum Thick nerve fibers that connect both brain hemispheres. 3. Temporal lobe Located on the sides of the cerebral hemisphere. Deals with talking and hearing. 4. Occipital lobe Located
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Conception Conception is the process of becoming pregnant. Most women ovulate each month this is when an egg is released by the ovaries. For women with a 28-day menstrual cycle‚ ovulation typically occurs on day 14. During intercourse the man will ejaculate and sperm will be passed from the testicles via the penis into the woman’s vagina. If a sperm meets the egg‚ fertilisation may occur. During a male ejaculation‚ there are anywhere between 60 million and 500 million sperm that have a
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The Five Major Structures of the Brain The brain is an amazing structure. It is the most complex and interesting part of the human body. It is like a huge computer that runs every function of the body. The brain is made up of the five major structures that include: the myelencephalon‚ metencephalon‚ mesencephalon‚ deicephalon‚ and the telencephalon. Each of these structures also has substructures involved within them. You start learning how to do things when you are born and keep learning as
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develop with age. There are many factors which distinguish each child such as diet‚ stimulation‚ environment‚medical conditions‚and illness. But most children generally develop at a similar rate.There are four key area of developmet which are; physical‚ social and emotional‚cognitive(intellectual)‚ and language developmet. Younger children between birth and five generally develop at much more rapid rate in comparison to older children. Growth and development begins at the moment of conception and continues
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“In order to understand what the brain does‚ it is first necessary to understand what it is – to know the names and locations of its major parts and how they are connected to one another” (Pinel‚ 2011. p. 51). The five major structures that compose the brain are labeled as myelencephalon‚ metencephalon‚ mesencephalon‚ diencephalon‚ and telencephalon. These major structures are what create the adult forebrain‚ midbrain‚ and the hindbrain. First‚ the myelencephalon is also known as the medulla
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ABSTRACT This paper explores the differences between macro risk management and micro risk management. This paper explains the definitions provided by Kendrick and then compares and contrasts them. It also gives an example of a project and assigns classification of either macro or micro risk management. It analyses the risk factors associated with the project and the impacts of the associated decisions involved with the completion of the projects. Furthermore‚ it discusses the factors that determine
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allotment‚ production and consumption of resources. Economics has been divided into two significant branches; one of it being the microeconomics and the other one being the macroeconomics. Microeconomics can be easily understood through the term micro itself which means small‚ microeconomics focuses on small level that is to say it includes areas of individual decision making and its core components include production‚ exchange‚ distribution and consumption. Macroeconomics on the other hand focuses
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For a “normal” person if they hurt someone that person’s distress becomes their pain‚ however this doesn’t happen with psychopaths. “It stuns me‚ as much as it did when I started 40 years ago‚ that it is possible to have people who are so emotionally disconnected that they can function as if other people are objects to be manipulated and destroyed without any concern‚” says Professor Robert Hare who is a criminal psychologist. When people think of a psychopath they often think of brutal killers
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The difference between sequence and rate of each aspect of development from birth to 19 1.2 The main difference between the sequence and rate of development is that the sequence is the order in which development takes place‚ for example a baby has to hold its head up first before it can learn to sit up unaided. Some parts of the sequence may be missed not all children crawl and may roll instead to move before they learn to walk and learn to crawl later on. The rate of development is the time frame
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