Both Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain and Use It or Lose: A Good Brain Pruning It describesdifferences in the brain. Yet both of these paragraphs are different they are both alike by telling the reader about the human brain. The age, neurons and hormones, and the reaction of the brain all is a very important to understand the brain's behavior. Age both passages are to certain type of people. In Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain it is for teens. This age group is a group in which the human brain of a teen is going through the change from a child to a teen. The article gives the reader an example in paragraph one about children being used to pick our nose and run outside in our underclothing. But teens don't do that anymore, right? No this is because of our growth hormones, and the sense of embarrassment. In …show more content…
Blame Your Brain"What changed? Not the rules about nose picking or your father’s singing voice, but your brain." this was said in paragraph two, but how did our brain change. Well, it changed because of the fear of embarrassment. If our father sings then this means that children will be embarrassed, and thus leading teens to not being accepted in a group of people. in paragraph 12 it says "Before modern society, people needed to belong to a group to survive". So yes this was a long time ago when people needed to hunt, but our still wants to be with other people. In passage two Use It or Lose: A Good Brain Pruning It it tells the reader that "But brutal though it may be, the pruning process is important too because pruning allows your brain to become increasingly more specialized so that you are better at the skills and information you use." this is said in paragraph 17. So skills you have are because of you narrowing down your likes and dislikes and working to improve on your likes. It's like the neurons if you do an activity that corresponds to a certain neuron. Then that neuron network becomes stronger. And that's how people get
Many people have trouble being apart of a society. These troubles come from trying to fit in, which is also known as conforming. Another trouble is trying to express one’s own style with one’s own opinion. This is a trouble due to the fact that many people have the fear of being frowned upon when being the black sheep of the group if one’s opinion does not correspond with other opinions. This is where one’s own sense of who they are, individuality, and trying to fit in, conformity, can get confused. A nickname for conformity is “herd behavior” which is the name of an article where the author relates animals that herd with people that conform. Many people have a different philosophy of this topic which will be expressed in this essay. An important
time; yet, nerds and geeks are still oppressed by others. To illustrate his intolerant attitude of the
The Brain plays a important role in our body, so in this lab we did a dissection of the sheep brain that is closer to the human brain. The steps we follow our teacher make every body couriose to learne about braine and see it structures before we remove the dura mater.We working in group lab and every body partecipation in the dissection of braine.
Similarly, going along with the prior rebuttal of the importance of differentiating juvenile’s characteristics and actions of that of an adult, science is compiling more evidence of its vitality. Many adults can look back and reminisce about an action he or she did when younger and say, “Wow I cannot believe I did that.” Science has proven the reason behind that is because an adolescent’s brain has not yet fully matured. Tsui states “Studies conclusively established that the brain of an adolescent is not fully developed, particularly in the area of the prefrontal cortex, which is critical to higher order cognitive functioning and impulse control” (645). The facts of scientific research need to be taken into consideration when distinguishing
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Paul Thompson in the article, “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains”, claims that the youth thinks differently, especially when it comes to them facing criminal charges. Thompson supports his claims by first citing an example of a real case involving a minor. He then cites research from reliable sources as evidence to back up his claim. Lastly, the author investigates the law system’s way of handling the case mentioned previously in the article as a way to leave options open for the viewer. Thompson’s purpose is to convince the audience that though the research given shows that youth suffer brain tissue loss in their teen years, it gives them no excuse for violent behavior so that he can possibly give a well informed side of the argument. The
McMahon’s “Inside Your Teenager’s Scary Brain” discusses how adolescent’s brains are delicate and can easily affect their development in a good or bad way, depending on the individual’s experiences. According to Jensen, a Harvard neuroscientist and senior neurologist at two Boston hospitals, “teenage years comprise one of the brain’s most critical periods of development”. She parallels her experiences with her own children with observations of teens in general. With new research continuing to surface, studies illustrate how susceptible juvenile’s brain are and how this could generate different techniques on how society, parents, and teachers handle them.
There is no doubt that conformity is essential to the harmony of society. It allows for individuals to work together under a uniform set of rules and norms. In childhood and adolescence, the time during which students go to school, children begin to learn these basic rules of civilization. They socialize with others, learn respect and become well-rounded individuals. This requires students to not only develop their talents but also their weaknesses. This Achilles' heel may be academic, such as math and science or more artistic, like vocal music (Source F). Although students may not be pursuing a future in these areas, learning them is part of becoming a balanced person academically. Only strengthening and focusing on a student’s specific talent could create an image...
Historically, cognitive psychology was unified by an approach based on an resemblance between the mind and a computer, (Eysenck and Keane, 2010). Cognitive neuroscientists argue convincingly that we need to study the brain while people engage in cognitive tasks. Clearly, the internal processes involved in human cognition occur in the brain, and several sophisticated ways of studying the brain in action, including various imaging techniques, now exist, (Sternberg and Wagner, 1999, page 34).Neuroscience studies how the activity of the brain is correlated with cognitive operations, (Eysenck and Keane, 2010). On the other hand, cognitive neuropsychologists believe that we can draw general conclusions about the way in which the intact mind and brain work from mainly studying the behaviour of neurological patients rather than their physiology, (McCarthy and Warrington, 1990).
Juveniles are not mature enough or developed psychologically, and, therefore, do not consider the consequences of their actions. In the article, “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” by Thompson,
...ok” into the brain without cutting open the skull and can see where information is actually being processed, it also helps with the understanding of how the brain works. This article has not only tied together how adolescents were viewed in the past as troublesome, crazy, kids that are driven by nature to an understanding why they act this way. It may be natural that they act the way they do because the brain is developing and maturing but they are not driven by nature.
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Individuals began to increasingly celebrate their differences and become less amenable to compromising what makes them unique. This inclination represents a marked departure from previous times when predispositions were to "fit in."
Juveniles mental issues and brain behavior is the full picture of their everyday lifestyles. In “Juveniles don’t