Trauma Reflection Paper
Veneta Callpani, BS, MA, RDMS When we talk about trauma, the neurobiology foundation is important to understand what happens to our brain and body when we are traumatized. With the advanced technology, scanning the brain with PET or fMRI helps scientists to track in real time the activity of the brain. Bessel Van der Kolk…
The sleeping and dreaming brain
Veneta Callpani| Department of Applied Psychology, New York University| Cognitive Neuroscience Introduction We spend one third of our life sleeping and it’s only natural to think about the importance and the function that sleep has in our mental and physical wellbeing. It is obvious that sleep deprivation has many negative effects such as cognitive deficits:…
WHY DO WE “AVOID” THERAPY
“I don’t need therapy”, “I did three sessions, and I didn’t see any changes”, “I would rather talk to a friend for free” “Who has time for that?” “I would rather go shopping” “I don’t trust the therapist” “It’s too expensive” “I have no problems; I am very happy” The list can go on,…
When meditation and stillness doesn’t work
Meditation has been shown to have a great benefit in reducing stress, anxiety, and focusing in the present. This increases our awareness and helps us look at our problems from another perspective. Sometimes this means we can separate the problem from ourselves and see it for what it is: just a problem. Doing so, it…
New manipulations to test stability bias and ease of processing effect on metamemory
Veneta Callpani | Lehman College| |Cognitive Psychology| |12/14/2020| Discussion We expanded the research about the ease of processing and the stability bias by testing new manipulations. It was expected that the high frequency words would be perceived as easier and more memorable, and the study repetition would be underestimated because of the belief that memory…
New manipulations to test stability bias and ease of processing effect on metamemory
Veneta Callpani | Lehman College| |Cognitive Psychology| |12/14/2020| Method Participants Thirty-nine undergraduate students in Cognitive Psychology class participated in a study designed to test metamemory. The academic background of the students is similar, they are psychology major, or/and Biology- brain science track. The average age = 25.9. There were 16 native English speaker and 23…
New manipulations to test stability bias and ease of processing effect on metamemory
Veneta Callpani | Lehman College| |Cognitive Psychology| |12/14/2020| Abstract The present study is an expansion on prior research about metamemory. New manipulations of word frequency and study repetition were introduced to test the ease of process and stability bias. Thirty-nine college students, native and non-native English speaker, participated in the study. The data and results…
A letter to my mentor(s)
I look back at the times when all I had was my dream. The dream to find my purpose and be at the service of life in an authentic way. And I must say, it has been a long journey. From a housekeeper in a small, beautiful town of Minnesota to a graduate student at…
Research paper: Testing the Brain’s Decision-Making Process In Humans
Underlying mechanisms of confidence and decision-making Our data showed that anxiety and confidence have an important role in decision-making. The self-report of the amount of effort required to solve a problem doesn’t seem to have a big effect on decision-making. However our experiment showed a positive correlation (significant in almost – but not all cases)…
Research paper: Testing the Brain’s Decision-Making Process In Humans
Results Of the 96 participants that responded to the survey, 46 were excluded due to partial survey completion. The R statistical software was used to conduct the data analysis. The non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test showed no significant difference between the control group(general) and the experimental group (strong math background) (p= 0.6171) in decision-making. However, the Pearson Correlation…
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