Scientific Analysis

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170825124902.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 1: How dancing or physical exercise done by elders can have an anti-aging effect on the brain.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: It just says elderly volunteers, with an average age of 68, it doesn’t say a specific number of subjects.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: Yes, there was two different groups each elderly could be assigned to, and they both involved training to.

Question 4: How were the subjects chose?

Answer 4: They were recruited, volunteers.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer 5: Both groups had to go through 18-month weekly course of either learning dance routines, or endurance and flexibility training.

Question 6: How did the subjects react?

Answer 6: Both groups showed an increase in the hippocampus region of the brain.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Answer 7: Yes, because the experimenters proved that dancing and physical exercise can prolong the aging life of the brain.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170828102719.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 1: Experimenters have revealed how eating stimulates brain’s endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: Does not say how many subjects there were.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: Yes, there was because the subjects were injected with a radioactive compound binding to their brain’s opioid receptors.

Question 4: How were the subjects chosen?

Answer 4: Does not say how the subjects were chosen.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer 5: There subjects were injected with a radioactive compound binding to their brain’s opioid receptors. The brain was then measured three times with a PET camera: after a palatable meal, after a non-palatable meal, and then after an overnight fast.

Question 6: How did the subject react?

Answer 6: It does not say how the subjects react to the experiment.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Answer 7: They did because they proved that eating stimulates the brain’s endogenous opioid system.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170829124507.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 2: Children that are excluded from school may lead to long-term psychiatric problems and psychological distress.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: Thousands of children.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: No, there was not a control group.

Question 4: How were the subjects chosen?

Answer 4: They were chosen on if they were excluded from school.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer: They experimenters researched on the brains function on how it responded to school.

Question 6: How did the subjects react?

Answer 6: They subjects showed psychological distress.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experiments expected?

Answer 7: It does not say if the subjects acted the way the experimenters expected or not.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170829124510.htm

Question 1: In one sentence, what was the research about?

Answer 1: Experimenters researched the pathway of interdomain communication in a family of proteins, trying to develop new anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.

Question 2: How many subjects were used in the experiment?

Answer 2: They used a family of proteins.

Question 3: Was there a control group?

Answer 3: Yes, because the protein group has to be watched often for change.

Question 4: How were the subjects chosen?

Answer 4: They chose the protein Hsp70s because they are more likely help aid in antibiotic, and treatments for Alzheimer’s.

Question 5: What did the experimenters do to the subjects?

Answer 5: They had to study the movement of the protein, so they used a technique called molecular dynamics.

Question 6: How did the subjects react?

Answer 6: The technique they used gathered data that proved the simulations for the proteins.

Question 7: Did the subjects act the way the experimenters expected?

Answer 7: Yes, the proteins worked and are just like putting a puzzle together because everything worked and fit together to verify the simulations done to the proteins worked. Now the experimenters are one step closer to finding a way to make anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics, and treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Psychology Entry #1

Question and Answers

Q: What is your favorite word?
A: Bubbles

Q:What is your least favorite word?
A: Anemone

Q: What one thing do you like about your life?
A: Having friends

Q: What one thing do you not like about your life?
A: Arguing with my parents and siblings

Q: What profession would you life to attempt?
A: Radiologist Technician

Q: What profession would you never attempt?
A: Flight Attendant

Q: What 3 words best describe you?
A: Quiet, kind, funny

Journal Entry

Why would I want to study psychology? I wanted to join psychology because I want to learn how our minds work and comprehend things. I want to learn this because I feel that it is important for everyone to know how our mind comprehends to certain situations. I think it would be cool to learn how you mind responds to different situations such as a relative passing away or scoring a point in a basketball game. I want to know how, and why our minds respond the way they do. I feel like knowing how our mind functions this way will help me be able to respond to things better. Learning how and why the brain comprehends things and works is what I hope to gain from taking psychology in high school. 

What I hope to gain from my experience in psychology class is the ability to know how someone is feeling and the ability to help someone through a situation, so they don’t have to do it alone. What I want to gain from you being our teacher for psychology is knowing how to have fun in class, but at the same time to be serious and to get homework done and handed in on time. What I also hope to gain from you being our teacher is your ability to teach and tell other people how the brain works and comprehends to certain situations.