its a phsychological experiment that involves a little girl that is put in a room and didnt have much contact with humans. scientists wanted to know what happens psychologically to a person. thanx!
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I think her name was Genie if it's the same one done in Southern California. I do not know her last name.
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I think that the area of brain activity is wide open to discovery and surprise. I believe there is a way to build a devise that can harness the brain's waves in much the same way that other energy waves are captured.
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You could perform a social science experiment by questioning say 10 to 15 cancer patients and asked how it has effected their lifes and how they cope with it. Then state the differrences between those who are coping well and make the best of things and those people who let themselfs get depressed and want to give up. Maybe lifestyles, and what they hold on to or their backrounds that may help or hinder them.
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Yawning or "pandiculation," is still pretty much a mystery to psychologists. (I just asked a friend in the trade.) Aside from the obvious observations of how it's related to boredom and how it gets "contagious" after a certain period of development in people, there isn't that much information on it. Sorry. (Hey, this is info from an old friend, so you might want to check newer sources.)
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One of my students is doing his research project on this issue, and though I have not read the paper yet, as he is not finished, I have talked with him and consulted his early sources.  He has found some interesting preliminary results.  \n\nIt seems that Sigmeund Freud, a Viennese doctor in the late 18th century studied dreams of his psychiatric patients, and through this research, he decided dreams could be interpreted as our subconscious minds' desires.  The implications for the Victorians of that era were great because overall Freud's theory of man's essential nature was that he is a selfish being whose basic motivations for life are about fulfilling those selfish needs and desires.  \n\nYet, much research has been done since that era.  A Dr. Karl(?) Jung, another later psychiatrist, has revamped Freud's original research, and even as late as the late 1980's, new research has connected dreams to chemical reactions in the brain occurring in the neurons along which all the electical impulses of the brain run, like electric circuitry, and this research says they are just random electrical discharges that have no meaning, like shadows of memories carried by the impulses, bits and pieces of images generated by earlier thoughts.  Yet, for me, this still leaves open the question.  Even if dreams are shadows of thoughts, one must ask if shadows of bits and pieces of memory would be purposeful for we humans.  I mean, why would our minds generate the shadow?  I think that is just as powerful a question as:  Why do our brains produce the chemical reactions carrying images of memories anyway?\n\nI think it is easy to see that there is much work to do yet in discovering the real essence of dreams before one can decide if there are more than random meanings to be taken from them.  And, that is basically what I am hearing from this student about his struggle with the research process so far.\n\nHope this is helpful.\n\nCC Ryder
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good one. \n\nhuman psychology this.
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I believe the science portion deals with the technicals of how everything works. Where the psychology part deals with the person.
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Very high.  Why?  Because this has very little to do with chemicals, it has everything to do with her coping skills.  It is one of psychology's biggest mysteries about how the brain function works.  When you become depressed for example, you begin to create a nerve dysfunction in the brain actually perpetuating the problem.  The symptons cause the probelm if that makes sense.  My point is that if she has never had coping skills, her thinking is always irrational and will cause the problems in her brain.  That's why without learning how to "cope" she's not gonna be healthy.  Her biggest issue is that without someone, she will die.  A lot of peole fear this.  It's usually caused by neglect and/or abandonment as a child.  And as an adult, they can not comprehend that they will not die without someone there.  They revert to that 5 year old thinking.
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This question is basically nonsense....\n\nBut, an experiment is a test or series of tests designed to isolate, quantify, and clarify whether a preconceived idea or theory is correct.\n\nHow to define that using mathematics...haven't a clue.
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Its an over all term meaning that the child is ok by the standards set by state and federal guidelines. It doenst mean any thing bad just that they are basically fine as far as that level of research discovered. The child is in good health...
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I have always been fascinated by the way that processing in the brain leads to the experience of the mind. An understanding of this relationship has eluded science throughout the ages and i wanted to be involved in trying to advance our understanding of the brain-mind relationship. I should add that some people believe there is no such thing as the mind and that all we should be trying to study is the physical processing performed by the brain.
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a psychologist doing his job on u
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I've been wondering that too. If it was legal, I would do a controlled experiment with newborns, and having them grow up in a totally isolated home, away from the world and outside influences (including people)and and see if they feel the need for a higher being in their life, like if they naturally feel the presence of a God. Also to see if the child is naturally good or evil would be interesting (of course this depends on your definition of good and evil). Sure the fact that no human would ever have contact with them, ever, would really screw the kid up, but whatever.
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- Alien Attack/invasion/Genocide and enslavement of the Human race\n\nGood Socialogical experiment.  It would be interesting to be part of the study.
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There are a lot of things science cannot and I believe never will be able to explain.  Particularly the behavior of human beings!
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This means that a syringe is put into their head and the person is killed.  Their body gets shot down a garbage tube.  It is very sad.  But no one in the book has feelings.  Only Jonas does.  But the book has a great lesson!  Enjoy!
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You could play different music for people and have them write down what they instantly think of when they hear it.  It would give you insight to the brain.  But it would give you insight to people in general as well.  Then you could place all your answers together and analyze it and report your findings.  You'd need to do this on many people, just a few won't tell you much.  This is more psychology than neuroscience, but maybe it would work.