psych ch. 2 quizzes
Sep. 26th, 2005 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikage*stretches* I finished my psych reading (entirely! yay me!) and quizzes, and with a little over 50 minutes until I have to go to work, too. I came right down to the timer on some of them, and on the progress quiz (the one that actually counts towards your grade), I had to make a best guess two seconds before the timer ran out. Buuuut... I got a 10/10 on that one too, so I didn't have to re-do it. Still, I really need to re-read everything and do some basic memorization, for the sake of the final (and wanting to actually learn something).
For those interested, my essay question was "What is plasticity?" (or some other wording of the same question). Keep in mind, we have five minutes to answer the question.
Plasticity is the ability of the human brain to recover from damage by reorganizing the roles of the different areas of the brain. For example, although the left brain usually controls linguistic understanding (particularly non-nuance based understanding), if I young child were to have their left hemisphere removed, the right hemisphere would assume this role. Also, since I blind person does not read with their eyes, but rather with their fingers, because of our brain's plasticity the occipital lobe takes on sensory perception roles, especially for the reading finger.
As the time ran out, I worried that I got the braille part wrong. Looking at my textbook, I see that I did. visual cortex, not occipital lobe! Bah! Once again, I hope that they grade easily (no half-points, and my answer was "good enough"), but I suppose (again) that one point doesn't really matter.
So now I'm going to go home quickly and get myself something to eat so I don't have to pay to make my stomach stop growling. Jaa!
For those interested, my essay question was "What is plasticity?" (or some other wording of the same question). Keep in mind, we have five minutes to answer the question.
Plasticity is the ability of the human brain to recover from damage by reorganizing the roles of the different areas of the brain. For example, although the left brain usually controls linguistic understanding (particularly non-nuance based understanding), if I young child were to have their left hemisphere removed, the right hemisphere would assume this role. Also, since I blind person does not read with their eyes, but rather with their fingers, because of our brain's plasticity the occipital lobe takes on sensory perception roles, especially for the reading finger.
As the time ran out, I worried that I got the braille part wrong. Looking at my textbook, I see that I did. visual cortex, not occipital lobe! Bah! Once again, I hope that they grade easily (no half-points, and my answer was "good enough"), but I suppose (again) that one point doesn't really matter.
So now I'm going to go home quickly and get myself something to eat so I don't have to pay to make my stomach stop growling. Jaa!
