PSYC4310 2023 January Week 4 Discussion Latest

PSYC4310 Biological Psychology

Week 4 Discussion

Please post something to the discussion board related to the content we are looking at this week. For each post, be succinct (use no more than 75 words) and professional. Feel free to explore the features of Yellowdig, such as your ability to embed videos and pictures, create polls, use hashtags, love or like a post, and so on.

Here are some ideas for your post to get you started:

Find a short video about a topic related to the assigned readings this week. Share the link to your source and a short summary of the source. Include why you found the resource helpful to your understanding.

Discuss an area of motivation and the regulation of internal states in Chapter 6 that stood out to you. Why was this information important to you? Can you see it affecting your personal or professional life?

Find an article about emotions and the brain in the popular press (such as the New York Times, CNN, or Psychology Today). Share a link to your source and a short summary of the source. Discuss why this made the news and why it is important. Discuss an area of emotion and health in Chapter 8 that stood out to you. Why did this catch your attention? Can you see this information affecting your personal or professional life?

Find a scholarly, peer-reviewed article showing empirical research in an area of neuroscience. Feel free to choose an article that will apply to your topic for the assignments in this course. Post a link to the article and a brief summary of the research methods used and the author's conclusions.

Do the following when writing your post:

Do not create your post as a reply to this pinned post. Instead, use Yellowdig's Create option to create a new post.

Label your post with the hashtag for the week (#Week 1) so that others can sort posts by the week’s topic.

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