project

Im not exactly sure what i am going to do for the psychology project we were assigned yesterday in class. I was thinking of doing something with my dog but im not sure what would work in a short period of time and what wouldnt. I also have three brothers, but I dont think I would enjoy doing experiments with them because they are extremely annoying, and i do not enjoy being around them. This morning when I woke up I decided I would go on youtube and look for some ideas that were somewhat the same as the video with the air soft gun and the easy button that we watched in class. Im still not exactly sure what I am going to do, but I do know that I have the whole break, and I will more then likely think of something by then.

development of a child

This week we started to do alot of learning on the development of a child, and how children develop as they make their way to adult hood. I find this stuff very interresting because in some ways it can determine what kind of personality the child will have when it gets older, and why we have many of the traits we have as human beings today. I found a video that talks about what kind of things children can easily pick up in the learning stage of their lives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYJv2mumA74

savant syndrome

Lately in class we have been doing presentations on many of the disease that occur in the human brain, that can be either developmental or they can be obtained through some sort of injury. The most interesting disease that we studied was known as savant syndrome. I thought this disease was amazing because people that have this disease can have the ability to have some sort of special talent. The short video clip that we watched in class was pretty cool. The guy that had the ability to tell what any day of the week it was on that given date and what the weather was like was pretty cool. If i had abilities like that id put them to use every day of my life. I know that people with this ability can be somewhat impaired but there are still people that can survive and live on their own with it. I think that sometimes something like this could be a gift in disguise. After school the day that we studied this syndrome i decided to go home and look at some videos of the syndrome on you tube. Eventually i was able to find some pretty cool ones. Below is a link of one of this videos i found to be very interesting, you may click on it if you like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkDMaJ-wZmQ&feature=related

future??

I think that what we have been learning in class lately is pretty amazzing.. It is so interresting how much scientists have discovered about the human brain and how it works. It is interresting how almost any action or decision we make can be linked back in some way to our own brains and scientists can explain scientifically why we made that decision or that one action. I thought the test we took in class to figure out whether or not we are left brained or right brained was pretty fun, and i also thought it was somewhat accurate because to me the questions they were asking made sence to how you could relate that to the human brain. It turns out according to the test that i happen to be right brained, i scored a 5.2. I think in some ways that i would have to disagree with that because i am not the most artistic person. On the other hand It does help me to visualize things when i am trying to study but idk if i am more right brained. I sort of feel that i am a little bit of both. I figured i wanted to go online and find some more left brain or right brain tests so that i could figure out if i was really right brained. Out of all of the tests that I have taken, I noticed that this test seemed to be the most accurate out of the 6 tests that I took.


http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/questionnaire/questionnaire.cgi