Running Head: NEUROBIOLOGY NEUROBIOLOGY 6 Neurobiology Shanae Hampton Dr. Alzen Cal Baptist University BEH 250 June 1, 2020 Introduction Good job including an introduction that gives some contextual information about the article. Try to be a little clearer in your language though. This is hard to follow if you haven't read the article. This article seeks to address the role of stress-related and social reward-related neural activity where the main focus is to examine the relation between giving and receiving. The impact of supportive ties of an individual and their health status looking at how one receives a health benefit that one receives as they ignore the support giver as well as how giving may contribute to the general good health. Various approaches shall be utilized to fetch information from the individual experiences as well as from the doctoral perspective. It is worth noting that the neural regions involved in maternal caregiving behavior in animals as well as the provision of social support in humans are also known to process the basic reward including ventral striatum and the septal area. Thus the analysis will base on the suggestions that support giving as an overlooked contributor to how social support can benefit health. Article Evaluation The main components evaluated in this article will the examination of whether self-related support receiving related to negative psychological outcomes and neural activity to three tasks. I will also examine the associations between self-reported support giving and negative psychological outcomes and neural activity to the three tasks. The analysis will be based on the findings that have risen that giving to others might be good for health and relationships, analysis of how support giving can be associated with less negative psychological outcomes, a decrease in the stress-related activities, an increase in the reward-related activities and the general pro-social task. Measurement The main measurement strategy that these authors utilized in the research was the behavioral surveys where analysis is done on how individuals take on the value of the reward and how they respond back to the person who rewarded. With this analysis the behavioral model helps them to come up with the response variables as and the effort brought to the social domains of an individual: (Inagaki.et.al.2016). Since the results being examined as psychological where the essence of good health is being searched this measurement strategy works to unleash all indicators of both positive and negative psychological outcomes that result to stress-related activities and the need for an individual to increase rewards to earn a social stability. The challenge to this strategy is that these surveys are subject to response biases which affect the quality of results. Could use more explanation of response bias. The variables in this case could have been measured using the milestone approach since t.

1. Running Head: NEUROBIOLOGY
NEUROBIOLOGY 6
Neurobiology
Shanae Hampton
Dr. Alzen
Cal Baptist University
BEH 250
June 1, 2020

2. Introduction
Good job including an introduction that gives some contextual
information about the article. Try to be a little clearer in your
language though. This is hard to follow if you haven't read the
article.
This article seeks to address the role of stress-related and
social reward-related neural activity where the main focus is to
examine the relation between giving and receiving. The impact
of supportive ties of an individual and their health status
looking at how one receives a health benefit that one receives as
they ignore the support giver as well as how giving may
contribute to the general good health. Various approaches shall
be utilized to fetch information from the individual experiences
as well as from the doctoral perspective. It is worth noting that
the neural regions involved in maternal caregiving behavior in
animals as well as the provision of social support in humans are
also known to process the basic reward including ventral
striatum and the septal area. Thus the analysis will base on the
suggestions that support giving as an overlooked contributor to
how social support can benefit health.
Article Evaluation
The main components evaluated in this article will the
examination of whether self-related support receiving related to
negative psychological outcomes and neural activity to three
tasks. I will also examine the associations between self-reported
support giving and negative psychological outcomes and neural
activity to the three tasks. The analysis will be based on the
findings that have risen that giving to others might be good for
health and relationships, analysis of how support giving can be
associated with less negative psychological outcomes, a
decrease in the stress-related activities, an increase in the
reward-related activities and the general pro-social task.

3. Measurement
The main measurement strategy that these authors utilized
in the research was the behavioral surveys where analysis is
done on how individuals take on the value of the reward and
how they respond back to the person who rewarded. With this
analysis the behavioral model helps them to come up with the
response variables as and the effort brought to the social
domains of an individual: (Inagaki.et.al.2016). Since the results
being examined as psychological where the essence of good
health is being searched this measurement strategy works to
unleash all indicators of both positive and negative
psychological outcomes that result to stress-related activities
and the need for an individual to increase rewards to earn a
social stability. The challenge to this strategy is that these
surveys are subject to response biases which affect the quality
of results. Could use more explanation of response bias.
The variables in this case could have been measured using
the milestone approach since they track the development of the
results out of a certain action hence they will help to read and
understand the caregiving behaviors in both animals and human
beings and hence enable better results. The limitation is that it
may work based on assumptions where the milestones are
subjected to doctoral experiences that may not be good to obtain
the rational psychological change. What about the fMRI tasks?
How was that used to collect data?
Sampling
The sample for analysis contained 47 individuals that
formed the study on the neural mechanisms associated with
social support. The self-reported ethnic composition included
8.3% Black/ African American, 22.2% Latino/Chicano, 33.3%
White, 30.6% Asian, and 5.6% Other languages which helped to
provide the required information.
Basing on the samples provided, the authors aimed to
generalize the social support scale as a result of the self-
reported ethnic composition. The composition is very important

4. when it comes to analysis of the relationship between the health
of an individual and the factors that contribute to the condition
including the negative psychological outcomes, the stressful
task and the health related activities. This limits the
effectiveness of the results obtained in terms of fulfilling the set
hypotheses since through generalization the analysis may not
understand the individual social and psychological
characteristics. Who are they trying to generalize to?
Analysis
One of the assumptions made by the author is the historical
reliability that social support is associated with less stress
which in terms affects the negative psychological outcomes.
Such assumptions led to the increase of the vulnerability
increase among some samples. A “vulnerability index” was
created that included depression like Beck Depression
Inventory,36), sensitivity to social rejection including
Mehrabian Rejection Sensitivity(37), perceptions of stress
(Perceived Stress Scale,38), and feelings of loneliness (UCLA
Loneliness Scale,39). I'm having a difficult time understanding
what you are trying to argue here. I also don't see a plausible
example of how the direction of causality may be inverted.
These figures provides the direction of the causality based
on the vulnerability index and thus Over time, the feedback
indicated that participants’ performance based on how quickly
and accurately they responded relative to the average student
became increasingly worse as the typical student’s performance
grew better, thus amplifying the social evaluative nature and
uncontrollability of the situation.
Ethics
As a way of protecting the rights and safety of the
participants involved in the investigations, For example, giving
support to a romantic partner in need against those not giving
support was activated both the VS and SA (32). Furthermore,
one of these regions, the SA, was negatively correlated with
amygdala activity when participants gave support to their
partners, suggesting that caregiving-related circuitry may help

5. dampen response to stress. These were some acts of ethics in
the operation that could not only protect them but also motivate
their intrinsic moves. I'm struggling to understand what you're
saying. I was expecting you to talk about risk to participants in
the study and what the researchers did to protect that.
Some of the potential issues mentioned in the study
included exploration of the affinitive task where images of close
others were reformatted into standard space and presented along
with gender, race, and age-matched strangers in a block design.
In addition to exploring associations between social support and
neural activity to a stressful and affiliative task, we wanted to
understand the associations between social support and neural
responses to acting pro-socially.
Conclusion
This article brings out clearly that the relationship between
support giving and reduced stress-related neural activity,
support giving was also associated with increased VS activity to
viewing images of close others. Those who reported giving
more support to others also displayed greater reward-related
activity to images of their own loved ones. There was no such
association between VS activity and reports of receiving
support (Inagaki.et.al.2016). To enhance the quality of this
article, there is need to include more empirical research that
will help to bolster the arguments and reduce more of
assumption bases to draw a conclusion for example the
historical bases as a source of findings.

6. References
Inagaki, T. K., Haltom, K. E. B., Suzuki, S., Jevtic, I.,
Hornstein, E., Bower, J. E., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). The
neurobiology of giving versus receiving support: the role of
stress-related and social reward-related neural
activity. Psychosomatic medicine, 78(4), 443.
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