Psychology

For this activity about personality I decided to analyze my Great Grandmother.  I titled this Grandma Great because that is what I and all my cousins have always called her.  If I could think of one word that would describe my Grandma it would be nurturing.  In the concept nature vs nurture my grandmother is all nurture.  When I go visit her and stay at her house the first thing she does for me when I wake up is make me my favorite pancakes, homemade.  Her priority is to make everyone happy.  My Grandmother is about to celebrate her 95th birthday this November.  I have known her for 18 years and her personality has never changed.  She has always been the some Grandmother who puts others before herself and who makes everyone happy when she tells her stories from her childhood.  I love finding out new things about my Grandma from her old stories that she tells me about out family.  Using Eysenck's personality theory I see my Grandmother as...

One personality that I chose to focus on was Tripartite Theory of Personality. This theory consists of three different sections which are: id, ego and superego.  T hese help de velop different stages in our lives.  The id id the main component of personality.  It consists of all the inherited or biological components of personality, including the sex and life instincts.  It operates on the pleasure principle which is the idea that every impulse should be satisfied immediately, regardless of the consequences.   The ego develops in order to mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world.  It is the decision-making component of personality.  The ego operates according to the reality principle, working our realistic ways of satisfying the id’s demands.   The ego considers social realities and norms, etiquette and rules in deciding how to behave.   The superego incorporates the values and morals of society which are learned from on...

"A day" that changed Dr. Burke's clinical practice consisted of a college bringing a research topic to her attention.  This research topic is called Adverse Childhood Experience Study.  This study based on 17,500 children that were exposed to an adverse childhood experience, which consists of: divorce, substance abuse, neglect, and many other reasons.  Burke used fight or flight as an example for this study. Dr. Burke compared adverse childhood experiences as to seeing a bear in the woods.  In this situation your pupils dilate and your heart begins to race just as a situation an adverse child experien ces on a daily basis.  When this is experienced this often many other health complications can come into play such as, diabetes, high blood pressure, and even heart disease.  According to CDC, " Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity." Dr...

This week I had the opportunity to complete this assignment with my coaches seven year old daughter Reagan.  When Reagan was born she was found to be missing a letter in her chromosome chain CTNNB1.  Since she is missing one of these letters she has deficits in her brain that affect every lobe in her brain except for er temporal lobe.  Reagan experiences difficulty with spinal mobility, speaking, writing, memory, and has trouble with he eyes focusing. During this assignment I gave Reagan 4 different colors of play dough for the 4 different lobes of the brain.  After getting all the colors in the right place she wanted to make ridges in the brain to look like the veins in the image from the computer.  Throughout the activity I asked Reagan what part of the brain controlled her sight and memory and movements.  She had very fun with the movements section because she loves karate.  I loved this assignment because it allowed me to think of different ways ...

One video that I found very interesting this week was the 3D street art.  As a child growing up in Las Vegas I have been around street  performances such as street art.  It is very interesting to me how these paintings looked real. Some of the images look like if you take one more step your going to fall into a deep hole.  This is called perception. Another video that I found very interesting was "Seeing Sound and Tasting Color".  This video was interesting to me because I didn't know that it was possible for the five senses to combine like this.  The combining of senses is called Synesthesia.  For example, people with this have the ability to taste a color.  This means that when a color is presented before them such as blue this person might experience a cool minty taste in their mouth.  This sensation occurs just because of the color and not because there is something in their mouth. “3D Street Art around the World - in Pictures.”...

One Ted Talk that stood out to me was the one entitled, Brain to Brain Communication.  This video stood out to me because while I was watching it I immediately thought of the the little boy Ethan that has inspired my interest in exercise science and psychology.  In this Ted Talk there was a paraplegic athlete that used this device, created by scientists and the presenter, that allows him to send a message from his brain to his foot to allow him to kick a soccer ball.  Imagine how this athlete must have felt being able to walk, kick, and simply move his leg with this device.  There are also other studies being done in order to help these athletes regain movement of their limbs.  According to  Susan Harkema, a University of Louisville professor, " We have uncovered a fundamentally new intervention strategy that can dramatically affect recovery of voluntary movement in individuals with complete paralysis, even years after injury.   The belief that no rec...