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PSYC 101: Introduction to Psychology

EXAM 2
Circle the correct answer for every Question below, then answer the rationalization below each question in your own words, from your own schemata:

a. hallucinations. d. increased risk of mistakes.
b. decreased productivity. e. impaired attention & concentration.
c. irritability.
You eliminated one answer. What would it take to cause the thing you eliminated to occur? Explain in your own words in one small paragraph:
Although hallucinations are not caused by having one’s sleep patterns interrupted by shift work or a change in time zones, they are caused by long periods of sleep deprivation, which often befalls Continue reading...

The nervous system is one of the most important systems of the human body whose major function is to control the internal constancy of the internal environment of the body through the process of homeostasis. The nervous system provides direct control of the muscles and glands by the somatic and autonomic motor systems. While the somatic system controls the muscles of respiration, the autonomic nervous system controls the smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, exocrine glands and adrenal medulla . The nervous system also provides appropriate outputs via the somatic motor system, which lead to behavioral responses, such as feeding, drinking and Continue reading...

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“Memoirs of a Goldfish” is a children’s visual story book written by David Scillian that revolved around a story a diary of a gold fish. It is a humorous children’s book about the gold fish whose privacy was invaded by several sea creatures. The invasion suffocated the gold fish and it chose to be put in a small bowl of which served as its small private world. As day went by, the gold fish realized that it’s lonely swimming alone in a small bowl. It started to worry about the other creatures it left. Continue reading...

Introduction to Psychology

Exam 2
a. Hallucinations
Hallucinations can be caused by mental illnesses such as dementia or delirium. Another reason of hallucinations is drug or alcohol abuse. Besides, medications and lack of sleep over long periods of time can result in hallucinating.
d. more frequent and vivid dreams

Decreased brain activity is observed during the Stage 3
Sleepwalking is observed at the end of Stage 3 or Stage 4
Slow and regular heart rate can be seen at the stage 4, when sleep is deep
c. REM sleep rebound
The catch up period after sleep deprivation depends on the time the Continue reading...

PSYC 101: Introduction to Psychology

I eliminated hallucinations because it is the most severe effect among the choices and is less likely to experience by someone doing shift work.
(Source: http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/variations/jet-lag-and-shift-work)
D. More frequent and vivid dreams

Stage 1 – decreased adrenaline

Stage 2 – slow & regular heart rate
Stage 3 – decreased brain activity
Stage 4 – sleepwalking
(Source: http://psychcentral.com/lib/stages-of-sleep/0002073)
C. REM sleep rebound
(Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-less-sleep-means-more-dreams/)

The amount of time needed to recover from sleep deprivation should be the same amount of time that was lost.

(Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/how-sleep-deprivation-decays-the-mind-and-body/282395/)

E. Stage 4

Sleepwalking is a disorder wherein people move around even though they are asleep. This phenomenon is occurs in the NREM when the brain is silent while your body is active.(Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/sleepwalking1.htm)
Night terrors are often confused with confusional arousal, which occurs when Continue reading...

Introduction

Approximately 15 million people in America work a perpetual night shift or frequently rotate in then out of night swings, rendering to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That implies a significant segment of the state’s work force is open to the dangers of working nights, which comprise anxiety, sleepiness on the work, fatigue, reduced attention and disturbance of the metabolic process of the body system. Those effects spread beyond the workforces themselves, since of us use the same road with night-driving truck drivers, reckoning on the accuracy of emergency-room staffs and depend on on the fortification of police Continue reading...

Introduction

Psychopathology is considered the study of mental illnesses or mental disorders as well as the occurrence of certain traits and happenings in one’s life that could relate a person to having a mental issue or psychological issue. When studying psychopathology one might include a variety of different professionals in different fields however more commonly you will find people like psychologists or psychiatrist hold the most interest. Even though these two professional groups are the most invested in these studies there can be a range of other professionals involved for things like brain scans and such. Descriptive psychopathology is Continue reading...

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QUESTION 1:

As a part of history, we would like to ask ST regarding his medical illness of asthma. The questions should be able to answer the chronicity of the disease, number of attacks each month, severity of those attacks, need of hospitalization in any of the attacks and we would also like to know if this particular disease has changed or altered his quality of life in any way. Is he able to go to work or he has to take an off every now and then because of Continue reading...

Communication: Media and Generation

Communication: Media and Generation
The primary question posed in the article entitled, “The Relationship Between Media Use in the Bedroom, Sleep Habits and Symptoms of Insomnia,” asks if media portals in our bedrooms disrupt our sleeping habits, or are the cause of insomnia. Some important factors or variables that are identified include that since the advent of multiple handheld electronic devices, insomnia has gone up, and so have the reports of insomnia. Furthermore, individuals who report having trouble sleeping also report having one or more media outlets in their bedroom. The hypothesis was if the media outlets were removed, Continue reading...

Gordon's Functional Health Patterns

According to Marjorie (1987) other are 11 categories of health patterns that assist in making a systematic and standardized approach to collection of data. The categories also aid in enabling nurses in determining the aspects of health as well as, proper human functions. The essay endeavors to make health assessment of McCain’s Family by using the eleven functional health patterns. This paper analysis the health habits of the McCain’s Family that consist of two teenage daughters, a son of ten years, a father and a mother both of 45 years. The assessment will comprise asking two or Continue reading...

It is a wonder why the college freshman dorms have no air conditioning. Since the beginning of their occupation, there has never been air conditioning in the freshman dorms at the Pepperdine University, even though there is air conditioning in every other campus buildings. Most students complain constantly about the lack of air conditioning in freshman dorms.
Installing and maintaining air conditioning in student dorms will be costly. Lulu Zainal, a freshman admitted to 2015 spring semester said "Tuition is already high, with installment of air conditions in new student dorms, it can go shy high .” Currently, the tuition Continue reading...

Part 1: Dove’s Real Beauty Print Ad

The foregoing image is part of Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ campaign for print and online advertising. The image is part of a series following the ‘Real Beauty’ campaign that Dove launched in 2004. Dove’s ‘Real Beauty’ campaign, especially this advertisement, has piqued the public’s interest because it presents content that no other skin care brand has used or adopted before. Consequently, the way that Dove differentiated its campaign from that of others generated widespread interest, and is therefore, effective in drawing the public’s attention, particularly Dove’s target market – women of all ages.
Dove’s primary Continue reading...

Probability is used to define the process of quantifying the likelihood of an event occurring. An event defines the results of an experiment. Probability is computed by dividing the number of count of an event occurring divided by the total possible outcomes.
A is the event of the episode containing sexual behavior is 338. The total number of episodes is 959. P (A) is obtained to be 0.352.

Question (b)

C defines the event that the episode is a comedy. The total number of episodes that are in the category comedy is 195. The total number of episodes in the experiment Continue reading...

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Introduction
Among different child psychiatric disorder, autism spectrum disorders are the most prolifically researched. Over the years, autism concept and definition have witnessed large change because of the changes in social and political beliefs regarding different methods and treatments provided to children with autism. Autism disorders are classified as developmental disabilities represented in the form of impairment in reciprocal social interactions with retardation in the capacity of using language accompanied by monotonously repetitive behaviors. By definition, autism is a neurodevelopment disorder represented by different aspects of impaired social interaction, restricted communication and repetitive behavior. Autism symptoms appear in early Continue reading...

Chain reactions are represented in various forms even in humans’ everyday life. Considering your private life, the rumors spread are often called the chain reaction as well since the information begins to tittle-tattle until everybody gets acknowledged about N’s new boyfriend. You can experience it when building nice super long chains of dominos and push one of the element and they start falling pushing the nearby bones. This is the simplest example of chain reaction – an action which cannot be returned backwards and frequently having a great residue and impact. Take, for instance, billiards. The initial balls arrangement Continue reading...

Aversion therapy conditions an individual to avoid unwanted behavior. That happens when the individual learns to associate new negative responses to harmful stimuli that would trigger unwanted behavior in a person. Although aversion therapies have been effective, they are not widely adopted because they are not acceptable to some clinicians and patients (Pastorino & Doyle-Portillo, 2011).

Study- Nov 2014

Olfactory Aversive Conditioning during Sleep Reduces Cigarette-Smoking Behavior
According to a study titled ‘Olfactory Aversive Conditioning during sleep Reduces Cigarette-Smoking Behavior’, that was carried out by Anat Arzi, Yael Holtzman, Perry Samnon, Edo Harel and Noam Sobel of Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Continue reading...

The issue of double consciousness within black political thought is an incredibly complex one, which affects virtually all aspects of modern black life in America. According to W.E.B. DuBois, the term “double consciousness” refers to the conflict African-Americans have between fealty to their African roots and the white-dominated American culture and history in which they have been raised (DuBois, 1994). Double consciousness complicates black lives in America, as they have a greater number of conflicting identities and cultures to reconcile; double consciousness could be said to have deprived America of “a shared understanding of commonly experienced political events” because Continue reading...

In recent years, the excessive usage of the World Wide Web has been known to lead to a number of health disorders, first of all, to so called the Internet addiction. It appears in the unwillingness to give up the habit of spending much time surfing the Internet. According to Walton A.G (2012), “research has shown that people with the Internet addiction have demonstrable changes in their brains – mostly in the brain areas that control attention, executive control, and emotion processing” Walton A. G (2012). That is why dependence on the Internet is included to the list of the Continue reading...

Ethics of imperturbability

The ancient Indians and Greeks placed in high regard ethical systems. For instance, the Greeks held that the state of mind complements the nature of an action to have ethical significance. A Jain considered it murder as ethically negative whether or not the act was voluntary. The Buddhist could kill in a voluntary scenario since the nature of the act and the voluntary state of mind are relevant to the ethical value the Greek tradition had plenty of Judeo- Christian to influence most of the ancient Greek philosophers. For that reason, Greek held that, it was ethical to kill Continue reading...

What sets Karl Marx apart from other theorists is that he gives primacy to the economic function, compared to other theorists who regard the various functional exigencies as more nearly cognate. Karl Marx's theory argued that the state should specialize in dealing with conflict situations, but these situations are of a particular kind--those arising from contradictions in the economic order and the class antagonisms arising from them--and the orientation of the state is subordinated to the interest of the dominant economic class. Furthermore, Marx posited that the paramount form of ownership is the ownership of a property that is Continue reading...