PSYC 100 WK 7 Critical Thinking Neurotransmitters Happy in Love Summary

QUESTION: choose one topic, and summarize scientific research to compose a response

CT TOPIC 3 : Neurotransmitters: Afraid, Happy, in love

Describe what types of neurotransmitters or hormones are most likely to be active in your brain when (a) you are afraid (b) you are happy (c) you are in love.

CT TOPIC 4: Keep those endorphins coming-maybe?

Describe three different events or activities that promote the flow of endorphins within you.

Is it possible to keep a high level of endorphins circulating within your body, using natural means? How?

Is it a good thing to have a high level of endorphins circulating within your body on a continuous basis? Is there a downside to this?

CT TOPIC 6: Your brain, someone else's body

If your brain was transplanted into someone else’s body, and still had all of your memories, would it still be “you” ?

Why or why not?

Requirement

• Your written response should be between 350-750 words (marks will be deducted it’s longer than 1000 or shorter than 200 words) and must be formatted in APA Manual 7th edition.(must have reference)
• To compose your response, you must read and summarize scientific research (i.e., journal article). Your response must address all the sub-components of your chosen question, integrate scientific research, demonstrate accurate knowledge of the material, and should not be an unsupported opinion. You only need to summarize one journal article, however, you’ll likely need to use more than one article to support your comments for all the sub-components.

To summarize the article, you must:

• describe the goal(s) of the study
• describe the methods used (**The article must use one of the research methods described in Table 1.2 – descriptive, correlational, or experimental
• describe the study results
• discuss your own interpretation of the study results and how they relate to the critical thinking topic question you chose