chapter 5

One of the things i learned from this chapter is about the differense between nature/nurture. Nature is our gentic inheritance, and nurture or experiences taht influence our development. I put much thought into this and found the fallowing. I think that you only inherit so much, the way i see it you onlyhave ruffly 5 years to install all the morals you want to you kids. After that you will find you self or child learning things you really didn't want them to. Once in school we learn things constuctive and negitve things. The nature can only hold up to so much nurture. I am andy turenne and thats what i think.

Also i found Jean Piaget studies to be pretty cool, he really worked hard to anser some difficult questions. Piage's stages of cognitive develop is very intersting, to have all that information broke down that simple must have taking lots of time and studies. It is all so intersting, i like the sensorimotor stage the best. It says in the book that infants before the age of 6 months just live in the present which is pretty cool i think it just shows how much we really develope as the years go on. Can you imagine if we knew where something was, but then somebody put a blanket over it and we had no idea where it went, i think it would be pretty funny, i would hide stuff from my brothers with little effort. Piaget, i think is somebody to look up to, he always looked at thinks with a different angle then his peers i like to think that i also do.

Final one thing i also found interesting in this chapter is social identity. I like this because it asks who am I? really how do we really know what is in store for us. Also like when i get dressed i really don't think about, O i have to wear this because all my friends do, i like certain shirts and stuff but its not like i am looking to be somebody else. I do see myself actually doing somethings that i think about later as why did i do that, that isn't me, so i think if you say you aren't looking for who you are its a lie. Like Taylor Swifts song says "I didn't know who i was supposed to be at 15" is actually pretty right on.

This chapter cover allot of interesting things and also people i enjoyed reading it.

Chapter 4 blog

I really enjoyed this chapter it was cool to learn about twins and things.

I go to school with 3 sets of twins, and lately i have been observing them more. While watching them i realized that with the set of identical twin girls they do everything together. All there classes are the same, they sit by each other, they talk about what homework there going to do first, If i had a twin i think our conversations would be different. Second set girl/boy, boy slacks off, the girl gets great grades and is good at sports. The boy is hilarious in class we call him T.Y.Z.Y, but he just kinda gets by, he could be just like his sister but doesn't try. And finally, Connor (his is in our class) and his bro.. There both really good at sports, Connor is a beast in basketball, and Spencer is a football beast. I think there both kinda there own people, there both do great stuff but its completely different stuff. Connor will play basketball outside and Spencer will play xbox. So that's what i have gained from my twin recon.

Also a few things i never really didn't understand very well was the difference between identical and fraternal Twins. I just assumed that twins were twins, boy i was wrong. If i understand correctly fraternal twins are basically just the same as me and my brother. I found that to really interesting, there born at the same time but there no more the same then if they were born 11 days or 3 years apart. Identical i understood some what look the same, act the same, are the same.

one thing i always wondered from watching the movie "parent trap" was do you think twins know if they are separated and can like feel like there is some part of them missing like a sibling. And also i do know that there was only one person playing both the twins in that movie. I just wanted to put that down because i was thinking about that since i was like 10.

Finally i found that molecular genetics. Genes that that influence behavior so the way i think has a lot to do with what genes i inherited from my parents.

Back up, The extra credit.

When we talked about this in class i could not wait to try it. Like Mrs. Zwicky said people will back up and try to keep a arms length between you and them when you are talking. I tried this with people in school and they would start walking away from me to keep the distance. It was pretty hilarious. when i tried it with my father he put his hand out and held me at a arms length away when i tried to talk to him and asked "are you okay". It was pretty funny, my own father was like get away from me. After trying this I don't think that i will keep doing it, because i would like to have a conversation where the person is not trying to avoid me.

chapter 3 the Two mind tracks

This was a very interesting chapter for me, simple because it is about something i excel greatly in. It i also very cool how our brain is like a different person. You are sleeping but there is so much more going on.
One thing that i thought i new but really didn't is what is sleep? What does sleep really do for us? i just asumed that when you sleep you are recharging your batteries (I am just kidding but you probly get my point), but sleep is so important to letting your brain restore it self, and letting our limbs get a rest from carring us around. I didn't know most of your growing happens while sleeping but i guess it makes sense just never really need to think about it before i took this class.
Before this chapter i really didn't know much about REM sleep, to tell you the truth i did not know it meant rapid eye movement. With that i did not know that this type of sleep is responsible for dreams. Also i did not realize how important dreams/REM sleep is to humans. It made me laugh thinking if i don't get REM sleep i could become psychotic, I never thought of it as that important.
Another thing i found intresting about this chapter is the circadian rhythm. Our bodies synchorize every 24 hours basically like the earth. Its just like earthly climates, in the morning ourbodies heat rises, as the sun is rising to heat up the earth. I think its cool for those people who are earth lovers.
I learned alot about sleep and our two-track mind and such. It all is so benificaly for the rest of your life understanding your self.

Implicit Association Test Blog (Fat or skinny)

In my test it was to distinguish fat people from skinny people by looking at there face. And then it would put positive words and have pictures of fat people and skinny people and you would read the word and put positive and/or negative for the word. It was kind of tricky because i was thinking about the earlier part of it were it was all about the faces. So i think the test is sort of set up to get the results that Harvard wants.

chapter 2 blog

While reading this chapter i found also about the brain i never understood how many parts there really where. I new that our brains where complex, i now understand why it is so hard to understand people. '

One thing i can take away from this chapter is the understanding of how we all can be so different. The possibility is endless for how many different ways are brain can react. I dont belive that this will change how i look towards people, becuase there is just as many things going on in my head.

In this chapter i learned about the different parts of the brain and how they work. It is very interesting to find how many parts are need to do simple things like breathe. the brain is extremely complex.

Another thing i learned from chapter 2 is that the brain uses chemicals to make our reactions. These chemicals are all the same in people but how are brains receptor them will make you who you are. Like on t.v they say depression can be treated by taking drugs that will make these receptors work the way they should.


Finally in this chapter i learned that it is possible to split a human brain. This i found to be remarkable, a split brain, and the guy can draw two shapes at once. Don't even try it you can do it, i have tried and failed miserably.