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    new memories and connecting emotions and sensations to them. Part of the limbic system. Absorber Absorber has the ability to remember what most people could never remember. Anything he has ever experienced‚ can be remembered in great detail. Amygdala An almond shaped mass of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain. It is a limbic system structure that is involved in many of our emotions and motivations‚ particularly

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    lying or telling the truth would be the frontal lobe. This lobe is in charge of an individual’s personality‚ memory‚ and emotion that are all things that would be triggered in a lie detector test. 3 Explain the function of the brain’s limbic system. The brains limbic system is located in the core of the brain and includes the amygdala‚ hippocampus and hypothalamus. It is in charge of regulatings the brains‚ memory‚ emotion‚ and some movement. 8. Return to the first paragraph of Activity 2.1.2: Build-A-Brain

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    Chewing Is An Issue People all over the world have sounds that rarely occur that irritate them‚ like nails on a chalk board‚ a fork scraping a plate‚ or car alarms. But sometimes every day sounds that most people barely notice‚ other people really notice. Some major examples are sounds like chewing‚ nail tapping‚ swallowing‚ and the clicking of a keyboard. These individuals do not notice these sounds more because they want to; their mind automatically detects the sounds and continues to focus on

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    Violence has been an immense variable in our society‚ regardless of what era our childhood occurred in. Violence is all over the place and it consistently has been in every generation. Constantly people find out about violence‚ whether it is in their neighborhood‚ on their televisions or even just in their local news. Regardless of the fact that if you are not a violent individual and you live in a sheltered and secure group‚ you are still not sheltered from violent actions. The alarming issue about

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    Richard Nathaniel Professor Jamy 21 January 2015 Food Memory Smells like Nostalgia I chose to share a story about my past experience this summer with memory being triggered by taste and how the two senses work together to bring back a unique memory from a certain time period. During my time from K-8 I had a really great friend that I would always hangout with after school. We would walk to his house each day after school and when we got to his house the first thing we would always do is raid

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    plexus network of blood vessels in the brain which regulates intraventricular pressure by absorption and secretion of cerebro spinal fluid. one scientific experiment it gave an example of how the distribution of marijuana in the central nervous system could effect man. At a high dose of 30 mg./kg. marked sedation and pronounced motor incoordination peaked at the one hour interval subsiding in 8 hours when over reaction occurred to external stimuli; man

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    Complete the matching exercise by matching the theory to its attributes. Type the letter in the blank provided (do not worry about underlining). Then‚ Write a brief summary of each theory (1-2 sentences each) Darwin James-Lange Cannon-Bard Limbic System 1. __a___ Was first published in the book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. 2. __c___ Emotional stimuli have two independent excitatory effects. 3. __b___ Reversed the usual common-sense way of thinking about the causal

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    Memory and Biology There are many events in a person’s life that leave an impression or may “change” a person’s perspective or path. From birth to death the mind is recording lessons and adding to the infinite storage space known as memory. Classical conditioning Lives are filled with many lessons; some of these are learned through classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning‚ and behavioral observation. A simple example of classical conditioning would

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    messages. While there are over 60 cannibinoids identified in the plant Cannabis sativa‚ Delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol is the primary mood altering psychoactive agent in marijuana. Marijuana effects acetylcholine synthesis and turnover in the limbic region of the brain and in the cerebellum. (Harwood 2005) Eldreth‚ Matochik Cadet‚ and Bolla (2004) used PET 15 and a modified version of the Stroop task to determine if 25 day abstinent heavy marijuana users experienced persistent deficits

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    Chapter 4 Study Guide 1. What are the two main functions of the sympathetic nervous system? (A) Activating system that arouses the body‚ mobilizing its energy in stressful situations – fight/flight (B) Regulates strong emotional reactions 2. What are the two main functions of the parasympathetic NS? “Rest and Digest‚” Calming system that conserves energy. 3. How do the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems work together (what are some images and metaphors used to describe them)? As one

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