Psychological Artifacts
The brain plays a crucial role in the life of a person, the reason why it functions even when a person is asleep. Further, God created it to be able to connect with other body functions and direct an individual on how and when to react in different situations. As a result, the scientists found the psychology study aimed to analyze and understand the functioning of the brain. Subsequently, various people have written on numerous magazines, journals, and articles on different psychological artifacts topics to keep ordinary people on the picture of why things happen the way they happen.
Entry 1
https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/siblings-how-having-a-brother-sister-changes-kids/
The Science of Siblings: How Having a Brother or Sister Changes kids. The Fatherly Magazine
Brother, Sister, Rival, Friend: How Siblings Shape One Another’s Lives
By Joshua A. Krisch
January 23, 2019
Parents are presumably the mentors of their kids, but the article claim that the majority of siblings exhibit the same characteristics as that of their brothers and sisters. A clear explanation that the magazine links well with the psychological concept of brain study. According to Krisch (2019), children play a crucial role in shaping each other’s behaviors more than their parents do. The magazine reveals that siblings who relate well are more likely to reach the same level of education than those with poor relationships. On the other hand, children who are exposed to mistreatments by their brothers and sisters have high chances to turn to alcohol and substance use. More so, in a household where children have good interaction, parents can relate and evaluate the future on their children with ease, unlike where siblings do not interact well. For example, siblings who have positive relationships are more likely to get early pregnancies if their elder sisters got pregnant at an early age. Besides, children end up preferring or living closely with their brothers and sisters than with their parents, not forgetting that they form playmates at childhood and become best friends at adulthood. Perhaps, parents then should train their children while young on how to live together, such as encouraging and guiding them to solve their problem in a manner that does not discriminate against one another. As claimed by Krisch (2019), when kids parent divorce though it is a stressful experience, children tend to firmly unit, especially if they are going through the same back and forth, which means that to some extent, diversity contributes to siblings’ relationship.
Entry 2
www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/05/20 › can-we-life-longer-but-stay-younger?
Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? | The New Yorker
By Adam Gopnik
May 13, 2019 – Aging, like bankruptcy in Hemingway’s description, happens two ways, slowly and then all at once. The slow way is the familiar one: decades pass with little sense of internal change, middle age arrives with only a slight slowing down—a name lost, a lumbar ache, a sprinkling of white hairs and eye wrinkles. The fast way happens as a series of lurches: eyes occlude, hearing dwindles, a hand trembles where it had not, a hip breaks—the usually hale and hearty doctor’s murmur in the yearly checkup, There are some signs here that concern me.
Analysis
An active life is admirable, and many people would like to remain at that age group, however, just like the way people expect kinds to grow, the aging too awaits for youth. The article is appropriate for discussion under this topic because it analyses the mindset of people towards aging, which is part of the psychology concept. According to Gopnik (2019), the majority of the people can realize the maturity rate of young ones but rarely understand the personal aging speed, especially the young adult age group. Perhaps, due to the pressure of people wanting to remain youthful, several scientists have tried to develop anti-aging mechanisms such as drugs, which can prolong the life of an individual. However, the big question is on aging while remaining youthful/active. For example, Davidsohn and Church have gone the extra mile to study the genetic intervention aiming to restore aging cells so that people can stay younger. However, the challenge remains with the measurement technic that will gauge the success of their intervention, which reveals another study gap. Gopnik (2019) claim that people can observe medical pieces of advice to live longer. Still, it is challenging to remain younger because of the maturity of genes and hormone that dictates the growth of an individual. However, older adults are a reflection of where every person is ending, which challenges individuals to work hard to achieve their goals while still young. Additionally, the article claim that older people play a vital role in nursing grannies, and therefore people should support and embrace aging fact as it is also a maturity rule of humankind.
Entry 3
https://www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archive › 201904 › dreams-what-do-they-mean ›
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Bad Dreams Are Good. Your nightlife prepares you for what’s to come
What Are Dreams? Here Are the Predominant Theories. – The Atlantic
By Ben Healy
April 2019
The concept of psychology is to review how the brain operates, which is related to the content of this article in discussing dreams, which is one of the functions of minds while a person is asleep. People interpret dreams differently, and even some hate dreaming. However, Healy (2019), through the Atlantic magazine article title “bad dreams are good,” revealed different theories of interpreting dreams. Perhaps, when a person falls in a night of deep sleep, some revelation of hidden truth comes in the form of dreams, which in most cases are challenging to interpret. Besides, dreams help the brain to remain alert and develop the best response effect, which enables people to respond well to a threatening situation (Healy, 2019). However, in some cases, they are reflections of what a person encountered or deeply thought during the day, so when such individual rest, the mind starts to flashback. Subsequently, dreams can change with time. For example, traditional people used to traditional things like black and white TV, mostly reflect images of such colors in their dreams. On that note, culture also plays a role in dreams, in that it is more likely for an American to dream of being naked that it is for a Japanese because of cultural diversity. More so, Healy (2019) suggests that people should not panic because of dreaming with bad/failing on something because, in most cases, such dreams present a positive result in real sense. For example, during exams weeks, students who dream failing tend to perform better than others.
Entry 4
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Expert on scientific tricks to fall asleep fast when you can’t sleep. Ladders
Five scientific tricks to fall asleep fast when you can’t sleep, according to a sleep expert
By Mayo Oshin
March 27, 2019 – After being awake for nineteen hours, sleep-deprived people were as cognitively impaired as those who were legally drunk. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours.
World health organization (WHO) reveal that majority of the adult population in developed countries do not meet the recommended eight hours of night sleep, which continues weakening their bodies. For example, a man who sleeps for five hours reduces his activeness level of testosterone to comperes to that of ten years older than him. Notably, the magazine covers the sleeping mindset, which links well with the psychology concept since they all study the mind functions. However, Oshin (2019), in his magazine, reveals that people can restore the sleeping order by observing a consistent sleep timetable, which in the long-run, the body will remodel to it. Although at some points, the magazine claims that people’s minds are incredibly adaptive, staying in bed while awake may lead the brain to relate bedding with awake minds. Thus, to counter such experience, the magazine advises people under that scenario to walk out of bed and find something to do most preferably reading in a dark room where one can fall asleep quickly.
Furthermore, some people prefer taking alcohol to boost sleepiness, which they should avoid, especially in the evening, because it reduces dream sleep, most crucial for mental health. It also interrupts the sleep several times, which an individual may not recall instead think he/she had a healthy rest. Besides, people use caffeine to keep awake, which blocks the adenosine receptors created in the brain to increase sleep pressure. Hence the person keeps awake only to fall double sleepy after about seven hours (Oshin, 2019). Continuous use of caffeine worsens the condition in that when a person run-out of it, he/she may not stand long without falling asleep.
Entry 5
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190930161918.htm
Which comes first: Smartphone dependency or depression? Science Daily
By University of Arizona
April 18, 2020 – Young people who are hooked on their smartphones may be at an increased risk for depression and loneliness, according to a new study from the University of Arizona.
Analysis
The development and growth of technology brought many positive changes in people’s lifestyles. Presently, many people across the world can access smartphones with the internet, which contributes to lifestyle changes. Before the introduction of smartphones, people use to interact frequently and share ideas. For example, students could hold discussion groups to find a solution to a particular assignment. On the contrary, Zhao, who participated mainly in the journal, claims that nowadays, people are always on their smartphones browsing, bearing in mind that Google has almost everything. Thus people do not see the need to bother others. Notably, parents are exposing their children to smartphones as early as while in preparatory school, and by the time a child gets to high school, one has become highly dependent on computing gadgets. As a result, whenever an individual is lonely or depressed finds the company on phones. Consequently, they find it hard to stay without smartphones, which calls for more study to establish a deep connection between smartphone reliance and psychological concept. Subsequently, the level of socialization has reduced, which might even worsen since the technology is still evolving, whereby if this issue is not addressed, it might overrule the persons living style. The features on smartphones keep on developing, which currently has enabled people to carry out different kinds of activities because of large phone storage capacity. Additionally, the University of Arizona. (2019) reveal that people use smartphones to manage their stress, which at the long run, promote depression since the phone cannot handle such issue well than talking to a friend or an expert.
Entry 6
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/what-are-you-afraid-of/559121/
Evolution has installed phobias in humans that are proving hard to shake
How Useful Is Fear? – The Atlantic
By Ben Healy
The article discusses how the human brain responds to a threatening situation, which, in other words, in a psychology concept. Healy, in his journal, reveals that God created the human mind and body to respond when exposed to a fearful situation automatically. The body sends a signal to the brain, and the brain directs an individual on how to react. Perhaps, fear enhances people to stay away from danger, thereby increasing the chances to live long. For example, the emergence of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) created a fearful situation that people have to protect themselves (wear mask and gloves) even when with their loved ones, a good move to stay safe since it is not easy to identify who is sick and who is not. Concurrently, it challenges people to use resources well, as reflected when a nation declares to jail whoever caught with corruption cases.
Additionally, when an individual encounter threatening things such as nigh sounds, the mind adjust and challenges that person to avoid dark places. However, in some cases, fear can lead an individual to a more dangerous event, which could not be the case if a person did not react out of fear. For example, in the 9/11 United States attack, many people opted to use vehicles, which later caused vital accidents that claimed many lives than witnessed on the four airplane attacks and even worse than regular times. Therefore, people should realize there are things to fear more such as diseases, and others should not attract deep fears.
Reference
Gopnik, A. (2019). Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? | The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/05/20 › can-we-life-longer-but-stay-younger?
Healy, B. (2019). What Are Dreams? Here Are the Predominant Theories. – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com › magazine › archive › 201904 › dreams-what-do-they-mean ›
583216
Healy, B. (2018). How Useful Is Fear? Evolution has installed phobias in humans that are
proving hard to shake- The Atlantic. Retrieved from:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/what-are-you-afraid-of/559121/
Krisch, A. J. (2019).The Science of Siblings: How Having a Brother or Sister Changes kids.
Retrieved from:
https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/siblings-how-having-a-brother-sister-changes-kids/
Oshin, M. (2019). Expert on scientific tricks to fall asleep fast when you can’t sleep. Ladders.
Retrieved from:
www.theladders.com › career-advice › scientific-tricks-to- fall-asleep-fast-
when-you-can’t-sleep
University of Arizona. (2019). Which comes first: Smartphone dependency or
depression?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved April 18, 2020 from:
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190930161918.htm