This is an article that I found on psychblog. It happened to be very interesting to me. These two professors took 51 pre-schoolers between the ages of 3 and 4, they wanted to know if the kids would draw pictures better if they were given a reward, not given a reward, or give them a reward but not until the end would make a difference. In this study they took each pre-schooler one by one into a room for 6 mins. After about 3 days they did it again and compared data. The data showed that kids proform better if they draw first and then get a reward. The kids that knew they were getting a reward didn't have good preformence with the pictures. The kids that knew they weren't getting a reward did almost as well as the ones that didn't know they were getting a reward until after.
This study shows that giving rewards to kids isn't always the best thing to do. If they know already that they are getting a reward they don't have to worry if they did good or bad. This reminds me of my team. There is this one girl on there that knows she is going to get to play no matter what. So, she doesn't have to worry about screwing up of giving up a lot of points because she isn't going to go out of the game because of it. It sucks because she has a really bad additude too, I think it has something to do with that she knows she is going to get to play no matter what and she doesn't care.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Chapter 4
In this chapter I learned about twins, identical and fraternal. This chapter was very interesting with all the different things about twins. How they vary from everyone else and how fraternal twins are just like regualar brother and sisters. Even though they are twins in reality they should just be brother and sister or brother and brother or sister and sister, but because they are twins their mind set is that they have a twin so they should somewhat be a like.
I learned that identical twins have the same copy of genes, just not the same amount of the copied genes. Because they don't have the same amount it is a reason why sometimes one twin is very ill when they are born and one is healthy. Fraternal twins are like I said before they don't have the same copies as each other so they are just brothers or sisters.
Another thing I learned in an identical pair of twins if one of the twins gets a disease it is 60% more likely for the other twin to have the same disease later on or it could be around the same time as the other is diagnose that the twin will get it. If a pair of fraternal twins has a twin with a disease it is 30% more likely that the other will get it. Another things about twins that I learned was about divorces. If an identical twin gets divorced then the other one has 5.5 times greater the more likely to get divorced, fraternal 1.6 times.
The last thing I'm going to talk about on here is about our enviroment and how it effects us. No matter what you say how and where you grow up has an effect on you. For example if I wouldn't have grown up in a small town I might be not as courteous as I am today. In a bigger city people aren't as friendly or nice to others as people in a smaller town. In a smaller town people know almost everyone in the town and everyone gets a long with a lot of people. Yes I know that everyone doesn't get along with everyone but there are more people that get along with each other then don't get along. I also think it would have an affect on me as a person because my family is very family oriented, I think if I didn't live so close to my family that my sisters and I wouldn't go to family gatherings or family events.
I learned that identical twins have the same copy of genes, just not the same amount of the copied genes. Because they don't have the same amount it is a reason why sometimes one twin is very ill when they are born and one is healthy. Fraternal twins are like I said before they don't have the same copies as each other so they are just brothers or sisters.
Another thing I learned in an identical pair of twins if one of the twins gets a disease it is 60% more likely for the other twin to have the same disease later on or it could be around the same time as the other is diagnose that the twin will get it. If a pair of fraternal twins has a twin with a disease it is 30% more likely that the other will get it. Another things about twins that I learned was about divorces. If an identical twin gets divorced then the other one has 5.5 times greater the more likely to get divorced, fraternal 1.6 times.
The last thing I'm going to talk about on here is about our enviroment and how it effects us. No matter what you say how and where you grow up has an effect on you. For example if I wouldn't have grown up in a small town I might be not as courteous as I am today. In a bigger city people aren't as friendly or nice to others as people in a smaller town. In a smaller town people know almost everyone in the town and everyone gets a long with a lot of people. Yes I know that everyone doesn't get along with everyone but there are more people that get along with each other then don't get along. I also think it would have an affect on me as a person because my family is very family oriented, I think if I didn't live so close to my family that my sisters and I wouldn't go to family gatherings or family events.
Do our parents matter?!?!
Okay for our homework assignment we had to write about our parents. I guess I never really thought about it before, but yes our parents matter a lot. They have a lot to do with how we are and how we grew up. So I guess they are the reason we are who we are today. They really make a differece in my life, they are always there for me when I need them the most. They are also there when I don't want them to be. But I know they are just trying to make me the best they think I should be.
In the assignment it asked to think about if I was in a different family how would that effect my life? Well, I found out that it would probably change my life a lot. If I lived with one of my friends I wouldn't have had a father to grow up with, no male presence at all. In my family my dad was the one to yell and punish me, so I always cried to mom about it and she was always there to tell me it was going to be okay and not to worry because my dad still loved me. If I didn't have two parents one would yell and I wouldn't have anyone to cry to and tell me things would be okay. My friend also doesn't have any siblings so I would only have one sister instead of two. That would effect me too because if I wasn't liking one of my sisters one day I would just go to the other one and play with them and didn't have to deal with the other one that was making me mad.
All in all parents are very important, they make you, you. If you don't like what they tell you or what they say to you just remember they still love you and they are only hoping that they are doing the right thing. So, go home and tell your parents thank you for making you who you are today.
In the assignment it asked to think about if I was in a different family how would that effect my life? Well, I found out that it would probably change my life a lot. If I lived with one of my friends I wouldn't have had a father to grow up with, no male presence at all. In my family my dad was the one to yell and punish me, so I always cried to mom about it and she was always there to tell me it was going to be okay and not to worry because my dad still loved me. If I didn't have two parents one would yell and I wouldn't have anyone to cry to and tell me things would be okay. My friend also doesn't have any siblings so I would only have one sister instead of two. That would effect me too because if I wasn't liking one of my sisters one day I would just go to the other one and play with them and didn't have to deal with the other one that was making me mad.
All in all parents are very important, they make you, you. If you don't like what they tell you or what they say to you just remember they still love you and they are only hoping that they are doing the right thing. So, go home and tell your parents thank you for making you who you are today.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Chapter 3
This chapter had a lot of surprising and interesting things. If a person is not fully blind they are still able to see a little, right? Well of course the answer is yes, but what I learned with the dual processing, the eye sends information to different parts of the brain and allows us to see a little. There is multiple parts, if one part is damaged then your mind can fill in the rest of the little you do see. For example, this one person had too much Carbon Dioxide while taking a shower and is now partially blind. She is able to recognize and discriminate objects. Her brain activity is normal in the area concerned with reaching or grasping objects, but damaged in the area concerned with consciously recognizing objects.
The second thing I found interesting and surprising was in the book it had a story about one person who got in a car accident and was not consciously aware of anything. When the doctors took a scan of her brain they found something that said differently. when they asked her to think about playing tennis her scans told them that she was responding to what they told her to do even though her body wasn't moving. I found this very interesting and didn't know that could happen.
Another thing I learned was I now know why there is a law against talking on your cell phone while driving. I always thought this was a stupid law because it's just like you are talking to a person next to you. But if you are talking and holding the phone to your ear you can cause an accident. I see how this is a law because as I read, you might think you can multitask, but what your mind is really doing is switching from one thing to the other without realizing it. If your are talking with your arm up and driving your are doing more things then if you were just driving with one other person. But I still have one question then, If your do it all the time wouldn't your subconscious do everything for you, like it said, your subconscious is doing things you don't even notice you are doing, so it just feels like your are just focused on the road?
One thing that I don't really agree with in the book is that they say that there are genes to becoming an acoholic or can be able to be addicted to drugs. I strongly disagree with it because I believe that it is how you grow up and what is around you. My dad smokes and is addicted to it, I would never in my life smoke. You also hear about children with two parents that smoke and they don't smoke. It's all about your surroundings and how you got brought up with peer pressure and such.
The second thing I found interesting and surprising was in the book it had a story about one person who got in a car accident and was not consciously aware of anything. When the doctors took a scan of her brain they found something that said differently. when they asked her to think about playing tennis her scans told them that she was responding to what they told her to do even though her body wasn't moving. I found this very interesting and didn't know that could happen.
Another thing I learned was I now know why there is a law against talking on your cell phone while driving. I always thought this was a stupid law because it's just like you are talking to a person next to you. But if you are talking and holding the phone to your ear you can cause an accident. I see how this is a law because as I read, you might think you can multitask, but what your mind is really doing is switching from one thing to the other without realizing it. If your are talking with your arm up and driving your are doing more things then if you were just driving with one other person. But I still have one question then, If your do it all the time wouldn't your subconscious do everything for you, like it said, your subconscious is doing things you don't even notice you are doing, so it just feels like your are just focused on the road?
One thing that I don't really agree with in the book is that they say that there are genes to becoming an acoholic or can be able to be addicted to drugs. I strongly disagree with it because I believe that it is how you grow up and what is around you. My dad smokes and is addicted to it, I would never in my life smoke. You also hear about children with two parents that smoke and they don't smoke. It's all about your surroundings and how you got brought up with peer pressure and such.
Current Event 3
Since I found out that I have been doing my current events kinda wrong, I was just talking about what happened to me, I now know that I have to blog about something that happened to me that involves the chapter. So, I have going to talk about my dreams.
One night I had a dream that I was with my boyfriend at someone's house. A lot of my other friends were there as well. I was having a lot of fun until I got a call from my mom. She was very frantic and was crying, so I asked what's wrong, what happened? She told me that my house was on fire!!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I told my boyfriend that we have to go now! He didn't care and just wanted to stay. I told my mom that I didn't know what to do because I didn't have a ride back to my house, I was in Marathon. She then proceed to tell me that the house was burnt to the ground...my dad was in the hospital with severe burns and my dog, Cassie, didn't make it out of the house on time. Needless to say I woke up crying.
I may have had this dream because that day I was super super tired and couldn't' fall asleep when I wanted to. I was at the person's house the day before and my boyfriend and other friends were there, so that's why I dreamt I was at that house. I think because I didn't get a lot of sleep that my mind was thinking about bad things and had a nightmare. After I woke up I tried going back to sleep but I could only think about my dog dying, my dad in the hospital and that I have no house to go home to anymore. Some how I made my self go to sleep for 5 and a half hours, then I had to get up for school. For school I didn't want to do anything and I just wanted to go home.
One night I had a dream that I was with my boyfriend at someone's house. A lot of my other friends were there as well. I was having a lot of fun until I got a call from my mom. She was very frantic and was crying, so I asked what's wrong, what happened? She told me that my house was on fire!!! I couldn't believe what I was hearing and I told my boyfriend that we have to go now! He didn't care and just wanted to stay. I told my mom that I didn't know what to do because I didn't have a ride back to my house, I was in Marathon. She then proceed to tell me that the house was burnt to the ground...my dad was in the hospital with severe burns and my dog, Cassie, didn't make it out of the house on time. Needless to say I woke up crying.
I may have had this dream because that day I was super super tired and couldn't' fall asleep when I wanted to. I was at the person's house the day before and my boyfriend and other friends were there, so that's why I dreamt I was at that house. I think because I didn't get a lot of sleep that my mind was thinking about bad things and had a nightmare. After I woke up I tried going back to sleep but I could only think about my dog dying, my dad in the hospital and that I have no house to go home to anymore. Some how I made my self go to sleep for 5 and a half hours, then I had to get up for school. For school I didn't want to do anything and I just wanted to go home.
IAT
When I took one of the test, I was surprised by what my results were. The test I took was what color skin do you prefer dark or white? I know that in my mind it doesn't matter what color you are I don't judge by it. My results said a different thing. It said I STRONGLY prefer white vs. dark. Maybe I didn't really do it right or something because if it had something to do with the amount of wrong clicks then that would explain why I got the results I did.
I think what this test was suppose to show me was that I can behavior or act differently then what I think I do. You could have a different side to you then what you think, but I do know that I don't have a problem or care what color people skins are. When others come up to me because they are friends of my friends, that are a different color, I talk to them just has I would if I was talking to one of my friends.
I think what this test was suppose to show me was that I can behavior or act differently then what I think I do. You could have a different side to you then what you think, but I do know that I don't have a problem or care what color people skins are. When others come up to me because they are friends of my friends, that are a different color, I talk to them just has I would if I was talking to one of my friends.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Chapter 2
In this chapter I read a lot about the brain and how it functions. It tells the body to do a lot of different things and if one part of the body isn't working right it sends a message to the brain and it tries to fix it or the body just can't function. The brain acts as one and it can't do two things at once. For example if you put a pencil in both hands and someone told you to draw circle with your right hand and a square with your left, you can't do it. Unless, you are the man with two brains. Because doctors cut the part where the two brains connect his brain has two independent parts. He is able to concentrate on two different things and be able to do and act upon the different things. Your brain also to do with what and why you do things you do, so basically if you didn't have a brain you wouldn't be here because your brain does everything. While researching, scientist for out that your brains act and are associated to brains of mice and chimpanzees. That didn't really surprise me because we always learn that monkeys are very smart and that we came from them originally. This chapter was very interesting and I think I learned a lot of things of how the brain works and all the functions it does.
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