Cognitive strategies
Explain how cognitive strategies (like algorithm and/or confirmation bias) can either assist and hinder problem solving. Include in your answer the definition of the strategy on which you choose to focus. Then apply the information by summarizing a personal example when a cognitive strategy was used by you. 1) Define the strategy that assisted problem […]
Substance abuse
How might a person become addicted to that category of chemical substance? Describe the process. What are the various genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the development of substance addiction as related to that category?
Rewire Essay
Imagine that somehow we could ?rewire? the visual system so that the optic nerve, via the thalamus, would deliver its action potentials to the taste cortex. What would a person with such ?wiring? experience when they walked into a room and switched on the lights? What kinds of sensations would be produced by different wavelengths […]
Sensory systems
1. What are sensory receptors? What do they do? 2. What is meant by transduction? 3. Consider visual receptors. How many types are there? Where are they located? What do they do? What is the end product of transduction in the visual receptors? 4. Consider auditory receptors. Where are they located? What do they do? […]