Reference no: EM133290651
Assignment:
PART 1
Videos:
a. Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world
b. Working memory: Loops of neural activity
1. What are general intelligence, fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence?
2. How can working memory contribute to intelligence?
3. Summarize what the researchers discovered about working memory that was highlighted in the above commentary.
4. What do you think is most interesting and impactful about this discovery?
PART 2
a. Can You Improve Your Working Memory?
b. How to Improve Your Memory in Less Than 10 Minutes
1 and 2) For each article, briefly describe four of the most important concepts or information that you learned. Number them 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B etc.
3) What did you find most interesting about this topic?
|
What substances are filtered out of blood at glomerulus
: What substances are being filtered out of the blood at the glomerulus, and which substances stay in the blood?
|
|
How does one achieve limited protease digestion
: How does one achieve limited protease digestion? Why are two different primers required for the PCR reaction?
|
|
Why a child who goes to school without eating breakfast
: Explain why a child who goes to school without eating breakfast would have difficulty concentrating on schoolwork.
|
|
Relationships between dysfunctional family members
: The Bluth family is a wealthy family that is constantly in turmoil due to the dysfunctional relationships between the family members.
|
|
How can working memory contribute to intelligence
: What are general intelligence, fluid intelligence and crystallized intelligence? How can working memory contribute to intelligence?
|
|
What is evolutionary advantage for animals having a coelom
: What is the evolutionary advantage for animals having a coelom? Are all animals coelomates? If not, what other body cavity conditions exist? Describe them.
|
|
Explain a negative feedback loop works
: Describe, in detail, the positive feedback loop illustrated in the animation. Describe, in detail, the negative feedback loop illustrated in the animation.
|
|
Read the article-one million species at risk of extinction
: Read the article from Smithsonian magazine, titled, "One Million Species at Risk of Extinction," about a report on the status of global biodiversity.
|
|
What is probability that their next child will have dimples
: Dimpled cheeks are dominant to un-dimpled cheeks. If two people with dimpled cheeks have a child without dimples, what is the genotypes of the two people?
|