Psych Research Tool

The Galapagos Islands are located 1,000 km off the coast of mainland Ecuador, straddling the equator. More than 96% of the native biodiversity remains intact to this day. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/08/08/the-current-state-of-the-galapagos-islands/

Maturation gives us a timeline of events that can happen out of sequence, concurrently, or in the case of physical or mental defect, not at all. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/27/infant-motor-development-traditional-or-maturational/

I had never thought of differentiating human development into the separate domains of cognitive, social, and physical. They seem so interconnected that to think of them separately seems almost a misunderstanding. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/26/lifespan-perspective-of-human-developmental-psychology/

The six major categories of developmental theories are Psychoanalytical theories, learning theories, cognitive theories, biological theories, socio-cultural theories, and ecological theories. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/25/six-major-categories-of-developmental-theories/

Corpus Callosum: The largest white matter structure in the brain, which connects the left and right hemispheres of the cortex. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/13/brain-structures-and-functions-worksheet/

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) affects one out of every 200 people in the United States over the age of 50, with 10% of the overall diagnosed younger than 50 years of age, for a combined total U.S. prevalence of 66 to 258/100,000. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/13/current-issues-in-psychopharmacology/

Although I will admit that Freud’s view of conscious/unconscious conflict and repression are very good at explaining some human behavior but cannot be readily isolated as cognitive processes. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/24/freuds-psychosexual-theory-and-eriksons-psychosocial-theory/

Gender identity and sexual differentiation form a complex, interrelated paradigm involving genetic inheritance, internal and external physiology, endocrinology, neurological structure, sexual orientation, and socio-environmental factors. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/13/the-inter-relatedness-of-gender-identity-and-sexual-differentiation/

I would say that experience is the filter through which we accomplish object recognition and visual perception, but I am afraid that would be an understatement. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/13/vision-senses-and-motor-control-worksheet/

The visual system operates on a set of assumptions or visual cues from the environment that help bring meaning and organization to the images that we perceive visually. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/23/visual-ambiguity-presentation/

Bipolar disorder often surfaces with young adults with the onset of a traumatic experience or a stressful event. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/14/genetics-brain-structure-and-behavior-paper-bipolar-disorder/

The lifetime prevalence of bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder is estimated at 1.0 and 1.5 percent, with a typical age of onset between 12 and 44 years. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/15/genetics-brain-structure-and-behavior-presentation/

Short-term/long-term memory, within the framework of the Modal Model of Memory, helps explain the limitations of memory and how these limitations effect assessment during decision making. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/22/problem-solving-and-decision-making-presentation/

The dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex serves as the highest cortical area which plays an important role in the integration of sensory and mnemonic information and the regulation of intellectual function and action. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/16/learning-and-memory-presentation/

Because Gage’s VMPFC was lesioned he was no longer able to properly incorporate memory traces into the somatic markers that eventually affected upper-level cognition. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/12/21/phineas-gage-paper/

I have always thought that free will meant the ability to choose our motives, rather than the ability to act motive-less. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/17/what-is-motivation/

The English word emotion comes from the Latin emovere, which means to move on. Read more: https://psychresearchtool.com/2019/11/18/how-does-evolutionary-and-personal-history-affect-behavior/