PSYCH 2NF3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Telomere, Executive Functions, Neocortex
3 Feb 2020
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Background: cognitive control: the ability to flexibly guide behaviour in accordance with internally represented goals and intentions and overcoming otherwise compelling response tendencies, meditations enhances your mental muscle, meditation enhances your ability to pay attention. Brain morphometry: prefrontal and insula region activated during meditation, brain structure is different when you meditate a lot, as we age the neocortex thins out. In a meditation group, the degeneration is slowed down. Aging and telomeres: meditating decrease telomere breakdown, cells don"t die as quickly, aging slows down. 20 minutes a day: go to corporate setting. Which flu group is affected worse by flu shot: the meditators had more antibodies. Fluid intelligence learning more and enhancing vocabulary, increasing memory and better information: meditate + yoga = more fluid intelligence, meditate = middle group, regular people biggest drop off in fluid. Innate goodness: babies choose the shape that helped the circle up the hill.
