Essays Tagged: "external stimuli"
Sleep and Sleeping Disorders
of physiological functions(blood pressure, breathing, heartbeat). And a relatively low response to external stimuli.What? And I thought sleep was something that you had to do when you were just to be ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
The Apprehensive Apparition - hallucination
ning sounds you could ever experience. Hallucination is defined as sensory perception in absence of external stimuli. There are three characteristics: thoughts or memory images, perhaps when they are ... ey are as vivid and immediate as perceptions, are experienced as if they were perceptions; they are externalized, or projected, being experienced as if they came from outside the person; and the mista ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
The Nervous System: A basic Summary of the nervous system and some little peices on how it is affected by disease and drugs.
NERVOUS SYSTEMThe Nervous system receives sensory input from the internal and external environment. It then integrates the input in the sensory centers of the brain and responds ... have a second response system, the endocrine system. The nervous system controls fast responses to external stimuli, while the endocrine system controls longer lasting responses to internal stimuli; ... glands (effectors). The input that reaches the conscious level is what gives us a perception of our external environment.The Somatic Nervous systemThe somatic (skeletal) nervous system includes ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Critically discuss research findings on altered states of awareness
es and their eyes begin to make slow rolling movements. However the sleeper is fairly responsive to external stimuli and if wakened during this stage they often report that they were not asleep at all ... e world decreases and the sleeper's waking threshold lowers thus it becomes increasingly harder for external stimuli to waken the sleeper. Nevertheless there is still some responsiveness to specific e ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Nervous System
tem is the system of cells, tissues, and organs that regulates the body's responses to internal and external stimuli. In vertebrates it consists of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, ganglia, and parts o ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Convergent Evolution
natural selection is a strong driving force of change. Due to the similarities in environments and external stimuli, species adapt similarly in order to function more efficiently. Natural selection i ... on-ancestrally-related species? The common factor between these distant species is the environment. External environmental factors drive functional adaptation: they encourage specific genes to succeed ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Behaviorist description of depression
could result in depression that waxes and wanes in direct proportion to the presence or absence of external stimuli. The danger inherent is this view is of placing too strong a focus on those externa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Human Sexual Behavior
The meaning of "sexual" behavior as opposed to other manifestations of adjustive responses to external stimuli essentially is defined in terms of reproductive activities for all species except o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Personality Paper
ted stimuli, such as their own ideas and inner thoughts, while extroverted people respond mainly to external stimuli, such as social situations and ideas from other people. Introverted people typicall ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
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incoordination peaked at the one hour interval subsiding in 8 hours when over reaction occurred to external stimuli; man reveals incapacitation of cognitive and motor function. High concentrations of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
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incoordination peaked at the one hour interval subsiding in 8 hours when over reaction occurred to external stimuli; man reveals incapacitation of cognitive and motor function. High concentrations of ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Dreams 2
o stimuli while the body is at rest, is essential. He states that dreams are the mind's reaction to external stimuli. For example, he did tests on many patients in which he would use external forces t ... ow dreams come about. However, Freud pondered the question of "why do we have dreams if there is no external stimuli present?" Thus, he concluded that if there is no external stimuli then the dreamer ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Dreams
o stimuli while the body is at rest, is essential. He states that dreams are the mind's reaction to external stimuli. For example, he did tests on many patients in which he would use external forces t ... ow dreams come about. However, Freud pondered the question of "why do we have dreams if there is no external stimuli present?" Thus, he concluded that if there is no external stimuli then the dreamer ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Is seeing the same as believing?
ons of the constructivist approach to perception states that perception is not always determined by external stimuli, such as our senses, and it is now commonly believed that emotional and motivationa ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Psychology 101
earned reactions that cause maladaptive behaviors. It is a common assumption that thoughts, and not external stimuli, directly cause emotions and behaviors and the cognitive part of CBT concentrates o ... itive qualities and strengths can helpto build and strengthen a positive view of oneself and reduce externalization of negative thoughts. The strength of the approach lies with the direct and proactiv ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Motivation Profiles Paper
on.Marcelo's motivationMarcelo's motivation can be explained by Incentive theory, which holds that "external stimuli motivate people to act to obtain desirable goals or to avoid undesirable events" (C ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
How Lithium Effects Baby?
months of a womans pregnancy is considered to be a critical period because during this period external stimuli can have a devastating affect on the development of the fetus. Since mother and chi ...
Subjects: Science Essays