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TOPIC: The field of cognitive neuroscience includes a wide array of disciplines and professions, such as the research neuroscientist who focuses on non-human primate translational work or the clinical neuropsychologist who conducts assessment with patients at a medical center. How do you see cognitive neuroscience benefiting the field of psychology, the patients who seek mental health services, and society at large? How do you think cognitive neuroscience could affect primary and secondary education of children and adolescents? What historical developments in neuroscience have had the greatest effect on the larger field of psychology? Provide examples to support your thinking. When responding to your peers, compare your views of neuroscience and its effects.
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STUDENT ONE:
I feel that cognitive neuroscience benefits the field of psychology greatly. This can help with finding the best treatment(s) to help someone getting mental health services. With society at large, cognitive neuroscience educates the general public on the biological mental processes. This explains the reasons “why†some people are more anxious than others or more likely to suffer from addiction in a biological form.
Since the brain is developing during primary and secondary education, children at these ages could benefit from cognitive neuroscience research. “Longitudinal neuroimaging studies demonstrate that the adolescent brain continues to mature well into the 20s†(Johnson et al., 2009, p.216). but there are many counterarguments that can occur such as, the environment an adolescent is in and how “maturity†is defined? In this case, I am 25, my brain is just at the end of development, but I have always been “book smart†making me seem more mature (at times). I am a juvenile detention officer, and I see many adolescents follow their impulses (to steal, fight, or even just talk), and later do not understand why they even did it and rarely have regrets.
One historical development in neuroscience that has an effect on psychology would be “Meltzoff and Moore created a sensation by reporting that human infants just 12 to 21 days old imitated facial expressions they observed adults making†(Diamond & Amso, 2008). Another example would be Harlow’s love and affection study on monkeys. This study has shown that children at a young age need contact affection to bond and feel safe.
Diamond, A., & Amso, D. (2008). Contributions of Neuroscience to Our Understanding of Cognitive Development. Current directions in psychological science, 17(2), 136–141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00563.x
Johnson, S. B., Blum, R. W., & Giedd, J. N. (2009). Adolescent Maturity and the Brain: The Promise and Pitfalls of Neuroscience Research in Adolescent Health Policy. Journal of Adolescent Health, 45(3), 216–221. https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2009.05.016
STUDENT TWO:
I think cognitive neuroscience can help the field of psychology, those that seek mental health services, secondary education of children and adolescents and society at large by giving insight and knowledge as to what neurologically may cause certain behavior and provide scientific evidence that the brain, as well as behavior, can be altered in a positive direction.
Neuroscience work has made great contributions to the study of cognitive development by bringing light to mechanisms that underlie observations of behavior made previously by psychologists. It has also played a significant part in our understanding of cognitive development by demonstrating that the brain is much more plastic than what was previously thought, at all ages. Also, neuroscience has shown that the pace and degree by which experience and actions can influence the brain is higher than anyone expected. In other words, neuroscience work has demonstrated the strong role of life-long experience rather than showing that biology is destiny.
Diamond, A., & Amso, D. (2008). Contributions of neuroscience to our understanding of cognitive development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(2), 136-141. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00563.x
