The first thing i found really interesting about this chapter is how they would use chipanzees to see if animals could think. I found the resaults to be amazing. A chip named Ai would be able to remember numbers that were flashed in front of him for a few seconds, and it says unlike humans he could put them in tap them on to a computer screen in numerical order. Also there was a parrot named alex that could comprehened numbers up to 6. From reading this i am not to sure if we are the smartest mamals, maybe the best taught but, these are some amazing animals.
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter is how when we grow from zero months to twenty-four plus months we learn speech. Looking at the table in the book it is pretty interesting how fast we really seem to pick up on speech. At about 4 months we make sounds, and from that point on we just keep moving up. Making sounds that are said often in our house holds, saying just one word that makes are parents flip, to moving up to a few short senteces and finally to rapid complete sentences. I think it is pretty cool by the time we are of the age of 2 we are just about capable to make sentcnes, starting from just making sounds its pretty impressive.
Lastly i never really knew what to call this but in this chapter i found out that when i have a problem and i always try to solve it the same way, it is called fixation. This happens to me alot when i play a game called bloxorz, you have to try and move a blox into a certan trap door, it is all about how you aprouch cornors and how you move on the tiles, i will add the link to the game and try it out it is difficult and if you fail try not to fixate on how you did it before you failed.
http://www.learn4good.com/games/maze/bloxorz_flash_puzzle.html
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
chapter 8
The first thing i found interesting is how are brain stores memory and how we retrieve memory. To have memory our brains use three stages or steps. first encoding to gather information. Next storage, to keep that memory for later when it is needed. Finally to get when you need it, Retrieval, to get it so your brain can remember it. its pretty cool that its seems to be a lot like a computer, you work on your project, encoding. Once you are done you save you project, storage. Finlay if you ever need it you can "retrieve it from you hard drive of your computer".
The next thing if found to be interesting was the types of memory, there are four types of memory. First sensory memory, or very brief recordings of sensory information. Next is short-term memory, or memory that is used for stuff like your credit card pin, or peoples telephone numbers and such. Then there s long-term memory, or memory that is used for how to read, how to write, walk, talk, and things that we have learned as we go. I found it also interesting that long-term memory is limitless, you can learn and remember things important to your life, till the day you die. Finally there is working memory, or basic what is your good and evil person. It is a mix of short-term and long-term memory to make you who you are by your experiences.
The finally thing i found interesting is chucking. I did not know much about what this was but now that i know i plan on using it a lot. For test studying this will be so useful, to make things so simple for your brain to remember them easier. And to think our brain sometimes does this automatically. Pretty cool
I think memory is very important to humans because most of how people act is things that happen to them, so if everybody did not have there memories of things that happen to them i think we would be a lot alike. I think Clive is still a human, and he does experience things but the fact of him forgetting things makes him a just more interesting. Clive is still a human just a little confused.
I still trust my own memorise, but when i think about what i did like yesterday i am really tiring to remember as much as i can just to see if i can. Looking back at my memorize that i can honestly remember with out people telling me some part of it, seem to be all learning things, like when i broke my leg, or when i got in trouble as a kid,or the first day i counted to a hundred.
one concept that i really found interesting was the findings of Hermann Ebbinghaus. He theorized about storage decay, and it was proved by the findings of Harry Bahrick. I think it is important for people to know this because we should keep coming back to our memorize so that they do not decay be lost for ever.
The next thing if found to be interesting was the types of memory, there are four types of memory. First sensory memory, or very brief recordings of sensory information. Next is short-term memory, or memory that is used for stuff like your credit card pin, or peoples telephone numbers and such. Then there s long-term memory, or memory that is used for how to read, how to write, walk, talk, and things that we have learned as we go. I found it also interesting that long-term memory is limitless, you can learn and remember things important to your life, till the day you die. Finally there is working memory, or basic what is your good and evil person. It is a mix of short-term and long-term memory to make you who you are by your experiences.
The finally thing i found interesting is chucking. I did not know much about what this was but now that i know i plan on using it a lot. For test studying this will be so useful, to make things so simple for your brain to remember them easier. And to think our brain sometimes does this automatically. Pretty cool
I think memory is very important to humans because most of how people act is things that happen to them, so if everybody did not have there memories of things that happen to them i think we would be a lot alike. I think Clive is still a human, and he does experience things but the fact of him forgetting things makes him a just more interesting. Clive is still a human just a little confused.
I still trust my own memorise, but when i think about what i did like yesterday i am really tiring to remember as much as i can just to see if i can. Looking back at my memorize that i can honestly remember with out people telling me some part of it, seem to be all learning things, like when i broke my leg, or when i got in trouble as a kid,or the first day i counted to a hundred.
one concept that i really found interesting was the findings of Hermann Ebbinghaus. He theorized about storage decay, and it was proved by the findings of Harry Bahrick. I think it is important for people to know this because we should keep coming back to our memorize so that they do not decay be lost for ever.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Chatper 7*
The first thing i found interesting was observational learning. More specifically the monkey experiment. This is really amazing to me how monkey, and other animals can be trained or, manipulated to do things. Even though the monkeys pictures are the same but in different spots on the screen, the monkey figures it out to get a banana. Just like people watching others do something and then trying for them self. Like watching are parents do things, and then later doing the same thing exactly the same, I find it quite interesting.
Another thing i find interesting is the antisocial effect. I think this is a big problem now a days. I watched people die on TV, and kids get abducted, it was kinda scary because i really didn't understand that it was just TV. Also i played Grand Theft Auto, it was a cool game but you learn about being a "gangsta" and killing people, fighting and such. Its not all bad i mean it makes the world that much more real but, what if kids think the new movie 2012 is real and start asking their parents if they can get on the government ships? If i was 6 or 8 i wouldn't know what to think. I thought about that quite a bit actually.
Finally what i found the ability to be conditioned amazing. Like i said before i am extremely condition to my cell phone while doing this blog my phone went off 18 times, not once did i not check it the moment it made noise. We don't even realize that we are till we learn about things like this. very interesting.
Also Kevin hamel = Warrior
Another thing i find interesting is the antisocial effect. I think this is a big problem now a days. I watched people die on TV, and kids get abducted, it was kinda scary because i really didn't understand that it was just TV. Also i played Grand Theft Auto, it was a cool game but you learn about being a "gangsta" and killing people, fighting and such. Its not all bad i mean it makes the world that much more real but, what if kids think the new movie 2012 is real and start asking their parents if they can get on the government ships? If i was 6 or 8 i wouldn't know what to think. I thought about that quite a bit actually.
Finally what i found the ability to be conditioned amazing. Like i said before i am extremely condition to my cell phone while doing this blog my phone went off 18 times, not once did i not check it the moment it made noise. We don't even realize that we are till we learn about things like this. very interesting.
Also Kevin hamel = Warrior
Monday, November 2, 2009
chapter 6 blog
The first thing i found interesting in this chapter was about sensation. It involves touch sensations, like i have wondered before why i can tickle my self and it does not tickle, but if somebody else does it makes me want to laugh and get away. after reading this chapter i have concluded that it is because our brains are smart enough to know when we tickle our selves and when it is unexpected from somebody else. Going along with this i found the rubber-hand illusion to be greatly interesting. It is cool, well hot, how our body makes warm+cold=hot. This is really cool and when i got thinking about it when it is really cold out side and you have been out side and you come in to take a shower and i always don't put the water to hot because when i feel it with my hands , which have been in my warm gloves, feels warm. When the water feels warm to my hands and then i put my foot under it to test it, it is true it feels like it is burning, so i basically lived this but never really thought about the why part till reading this chapter.
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter was what do the tastes we taste mean? after reading the chapter I found a cool table that explains about what each taste means. It goes like this, sweet means energy source. That makes sense i guess sugar is basically fuel for our bodies and it is accepted like that. Next is Salty, meaning "sodium essential to physiological processes", i really don't know what that all means but i pretty much took it as you need salt to think. Close? I'm not for sure. Next Sour, i never knew that we take sour as "potentially toxic acid", when we eat sour skittles our brain thinks its toxic acid, well candy is sort of acidic i guess. Moving on bitter mean poisons. So 85 % cocoa chocolate does kinda taste like poison, but its suppose to be good for you so i don't know. Finally, a thing called "Umani" mean "potential to grow and repair tissue". I don't know what "Umani" is but i could use some!
Finally the last thing i found cool is how a little girl has no feeling for pain, i think this would be cool but dangerous. Like the girls mother says, it would be hard for a little girl not to bump in to things and not fall in cry, but yet walk away like it didn't happen. If all little kids where like that there would be a lot of deaths i think. So I'm sort of torn it would be cool for sports you wouldn't feel the concussion pain, but than again you could die. You sprain your ankle and keep playing and then you end up ripping all the ligaments in you foot. So the more i have thought about it, I'm cool with feeling the pain, that little girl is going to have to remember if she thinks that should have hurt to get checked out or she could really be in trouble.
Another thing i found interesting about this chapter was what do the tastes we taste mean? after reading the chapter I found a cool table that explains about what each taste means. It goes like this, sweet means energy source. That makes sense i guess sugar is basically fuel for our bodies and it is accepted like that. Next is Salty, meaning "sodium essential to physiological processes", i really don't know what that all means but i pretty much took it as you need salt to think. Close? I'm not for sure. Next Sour, i never knew that we take sour as "potentially toxic acid", when we eat sour skittles our brain thinks its toxic acid, well candy is sort of acidic i guess. Moving on bitter mean poisons. So 85 % cocoa chocolate does kinda taste like poison, but its suppose to be good for you so i don't know. Finally, a thing called "Umani" mean "potential to grow and repair tissue". I don't know what "Umani" is but i could use some!
Finally the last thing i found cool is how a little girl has no feeling for pain, i think this would be cool but dangerous. Like the girls mother says, it would be hard for a little girl not to bump in to things and not fall in cry, but yet walk away like it didn't happen. If all little kids where like that there would be a lot of deaths i think. So I'm sort of torn it would be cool for sports you wouldn't feel the concussion pain, but than again you could die. You sprain your ankle and keep playing and then you end up ripping all the ligaments in you foot. So the more i have thought about it, I'm cool with feeling the pain, that little girl is going to have to remember if she thinks that should have hurt to get checked out or she could really be in trouble.
Illusions Blog
I love looking at illusions, but i always worry about getting hypnotized and then breaking my computer. Any way the illusions i looked at were "stepping feet", Stereokinetic Phenomenon, “Rotating Snake” ,Snake Illusion ad lib,Pinna-Brelstaff Illusion,Motion Aftereffect (Waterfall Illusion),Spiral aftereffect, and Roget's ‘Palisade’ Illusion. What i learned from these illusions is that your brain seems to foucus solely on the first thing it sees, and then after a while you see what you are suppose to. What i found surpriseing is when they give you a illusion like Reverse Spoke Illusion when you speed it up it looks as if the lines are moving, but slow it down and you realize that the spokes are not spining. This activity really made me think, maybe when i see something that dosent seem right prolly look again and may really look. Like when you know you put something somewhere and you can not see it because you are looking to fast, it really makes me mad when that happens to me.
These illusion happen all the time in our daily life. It happens to me when people with striped shirts walk by each other and the shirts are different colors and it looks like one big blob.
These illusion happen all the time in our daily life. It happens to me when people with striped shirts walk by each other and the shirts are different colors and it looks like one big blob.
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