Week 3 Questions
Discipline:
Psychology
Type of service:
Coursework
Spacing:
Double spacing
Paper format:
APA
Number of pages:
4 pages
Number of sources:
8 sources
Paper details:
Please answer the questions below. Each response MUST include at least 150 words and in-text citations. Also, be sure to include a FULL APA reference.
Please answer the following questions. Each response MUST BE at least 150 words and include an in-text citation. Be sure to include a FULL APA reference for each response.
- What are some issues that can affect the eye? consider things like cataracts? macular degeneration? glaucoma? What can be done to treat or prevent these issues?
- We haven’t spent much time discussing the sense of taste. But this leads directly to our discussion in week 4 about hunger and eating – so to help preview next week’s discussion, please take a moment to look in the textbook or other scientific resources and share something you learned about how we sense tastes…what structures are involved? talk about receptors and/or brain structures.
Here is a resource to get you started on your discovery of the sense of taste: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072592/
- Imagine you have damaged your olfactory bulb and are unable to smell. How might your life be different? Discuss the different parts of the nervous system involved with smell, particularly in the brain.
- One of the things we have talked about in the class is how people adapt to disabilities or losses. We have looked at this from a brain perspective (what happens in the brain – for a blind person, adapting to the loss of sight). But I would also like to challenge the class to think about all of the other adaptive devices and behaviors that would go into a person’s life, if they lost one of their senses.
For example, pick one of the following to respond:
- What are the things that a blind person could use to read or get information (Braille, etc) – how does the brain process this information?
- What are the things that can help a person who has hearing loss?
- What strategies can be used for someone who loses the sense of touch in a limb?
And overall, what are the psychological & emotional issues that often confront people who lose a sense? What does the research say about this?
- What does the cerebellum do? Why is this important?
- Review some of the disorders of the spinal cord, as discussed in this chapter; share what you learned.
TABLE 8.1 Disorders of the Spinal Cord
| Disorder | Description | Cause |
| Paralysis | Lack of voluntary movement in part of the body. | Damage to spinal cord, motor neurons, or their axons. |
| Paraplegia | Loss of sensation and voluntary muscle control in both legs. Reflexes remain. Although no messages pass between the brain and the genitals, the genitals still respond reflexively to touch. Paraplegics have no genital sensations, but they can still experience orgasm (Money, 1967). | Cut through the spinal cord above the segments attached to the legs. |
| Quadriplegia | Loss of sensation and muscle control in all four extremities. | Cut through the spinal cord above the segments controlling the arms. |
| Hemiplegia | Loss of sensation and muscle control in the arm and leg on one side. | Cut halfway through the spinal cord or (more commonly) damage to one hemisphere of the cerebral cortex. |
| Tabes dorsalis | Impaired sensation in the legs and pelvic region, impaired leg reflexes and walking, loss of bladder and bowel control. | Late stage of syphilis.
Dorsal roots of the spinal cord deteriorate. |
| Poliomyelitis | Paralysis. | Virus that damages cell bodies of motor neurons. |
| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | Gradual weakness and paralysis, starting with the arms and later spreading to the legs.
Both motor neurons and axons from the brain to the motor neurons are destroyed. |
Unknown. |
- Synthesize what you learned about Parkinson’s disease, and discuss the range of treatment options.
- Discuss the difference between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Give some practical examples of how these work in your daily life. This connects to our discussion next week about stress and health.
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