Placebo Effect

The placebo effect is somewhat a felt improvement in health which dose not include medication or a proper treatment, also fake surgeries and therapies are considered placebos. In 1995 Henry K. Butcher found that 35% of the people recovered using pills with no active ingredients. Other researchers studied 10 of Butcher´s 15 studies and found that 67% of the peoples condition improved without the using a placebo, another study was shown that people who had a cold where given a placebo and they experienced improvements in six days. It was also found that Henry K. Butcher only reported the percentage of conditions that shows improvements of the placebo, not the percentage that deteriorated. After examining 800 studies of the placebo effect, that was published worldwide by Henry, there was no evidence for the alleged placebo effect. The researchers did an experiment using 3 groups of participants: a group with medication, a group with a placebo, and a group with no treatment. The results of the 3 groups where matched 100% of the time. In my opinion of the effectiveness of placebos its kind of weird how the body behaves when received a treatment that doesn't cure the disease, but I think that some placebo work because for example every time I get a headache I put a pillow on my head for 40 minutes and it results that the pain is relieved or slight pain remains.

Gender and Cultural Difference

The Gender

In this article the Psychologists Agneta Herlitz and Jenny Rehnman in Stockholm investigated that if man or women had more accurate memory in remembering every day events. They found that episodic memory was a strength for women, in detail this indicates that women are excellent at remembering words, objects, pictures of every day life, etc., but men have a better ability at remembering non-linguistic information for example, finding there way back when lost. Another discovery that they found was that women where better at remembering faces than men, to prove this they did a an experiment where they presented three groups of participants with black and white pictures of hairless, androgynous faces and described them as ‘female faces,’ ‘male faces’ or just ‘faces.’ The results where found that women where able to remember female faces than the male faces. To conclude this research they found that Environmental factors, and education influence the differences of memory between men and women.

The Culture

In this article Michelle Leichtman researches about memories of children and how well they can remember their childhood when they grow up, they found that people from the US have more strength in remembering their childhood because they grew up in societies that focus on individual personal history, but in Asia many people don't remember their childhood because they grew up in culture where they value there interdependence rather than personal autonomy.

Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's is a disease that occurs at the age of 65, in which your brain starts to deteriorate and you lose resent memories, your personality, and you might forget things that are common in your daily life such as the location of your house, or the names of your family.This disease starts off in the minor stage in which many symptoms are noticeable by others, as the person ages the disease get worse at the point in which you don't remember who you are, and other people who know the person will visualize him as a stranger. Not all people get Alzheimer's , and the people who get it don't necessarily get to the severe stage of Alzheimer's. After watching the video of people with Alzheimer's I felt sad for them because its terrible that you forget the common things that revolve around you, and your education. Especially your personality because when you become disrespectful and angry others will not what to talk to the person or take care of them, which basically they will be left alone until they die. Although there is a medicine that can slow down the progress of the disease, but not curing it, but I wish that in the future there will be a cure for Alzheimer's, my mom says that to prevent this disease you have to keep your brain active by reading, solving puzzles, or anything else that stimulates the brain.