Blog #6

Today in psychology we did two demonstrations with the ears. The first one we did was dealing with the vestibular sense that senses your bodies position and movement, including the sense of balance. Your vestibular sense is in your inner ear and uses a sense of equilibrium to determine where your body is: upside down, high in the air, or on the ground. In class we demonstrated this by placing a person on a board blindfolded. Two people lifted the board about two inches and the teacher would say raise the board up, but really he would just move down. We did the experiment three times, but it only worked once. Danielle was the only one who thought she was going up in the air, while the another two knew that the teacher was just moving and they weren't. I found that to be very interesting and weird at the same time. I thought that they would all think they were moving, but I guess not.

Another hearing lab that we did was placing desk about a chair and placing someone in the middle, while the people in their desk would tap a pen. The person in the middle had to guess where they were hearing the sound from. It is much easier to hear if a sound is coming from the left of right, but extremely hard to tell if it is coming from in front of you or behind you. That is because when a sound comes from the front or back they reach your ears at the same time, but when it comes from the left or right they reach your ears at the same time. I find this experiment to be interesting, because it is really hard to tell where a sound is coming from and can be quite difficult.

PSA Blog

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU24YM3mXdE&feature=g-upl&context=G2d101b9AUAAAAAAAGAA

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uOnUg4Cpk

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9TBMT5p57c&list=UUc6kTHkUxvPS03cMz5ZA7Zw&index=2&feature=plcp

My favorite video is the second one because I really enjoyed watching it. I thought that they really made an effort making the video and put a different twist on it. I found it to be entertaining and informative. I liked the way they talked about each stage and gave examples of each. I thought that some of the places they used your different and they were really able to make each place sound fun. It really thought that this video was wonderful and amazing.

Blog #5

A topic that I was super interested in this week in psychology was Piaget's stages of development. I found his stages to be appealing and worth looking into. I stages that I found to be the most interesting was the sensorimotor and the preoperational stages. I found two videos that helped me learn more about these stages and demonstrate them.
The first video that I found was on sensorimotor and demonstrating object permanence. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdLNuP7OA8&feature=g-hist&context=G29426c3AHTz8VagAJAA The video shows how a child under one will really think that an object is gone and will also lose interested in the object when they think that the object is no longer there. In this video they also show how a kids with a little object permanence will always think that they object is in the same place that they found it before, even if they see that you have placed it under a different cloth. I found this video interesting and thought that it did a great job at showing what object permanence is. I love seeing how children act and playing different games like this with them.
Another video that I found was on the children in the preoperational and their take on conservation. Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLEWVu815o. This video does and excellent job at showing how kid in the preoperation stage think that that they have more of something just by altering one small thing. I love the part when they move the quarters and the little girl thinks that there are more in the line that is spread out more. I found that to be very funny. I would have to say that the gram cracker part to be very interesting and that young children think that can two think although they only have one and they watched you break it in half.
Both of these video I think are great representations of these two stages and how kids develop from year to year. I love learning about development and learning about the growth of children. I can't wait to try some of these things with my own children someday.

Blog #4

I thought that obtaining ice cube to be particularly easy to do. There weren’t any super hard times, besides maybe when I was at work it was little more difficult but not too hard. I hated lying to my family and my friends and not being able to tell them about my “addiction”.
That was the hardest part of this simulation. I can really see now how addicts can lose the people they care about because they aren’t able to tell them about
what is going on in their life. My actions kind of surprised me because I always had to wait for my family to leave the kitchen before I could get anything to
drink or get ice. My family and friends never noticed any changes in my behavior and never questioned anything that I did. I found that to be very
interesting that no one noticed anything different about me. I am now able to see how parents can be surprised to find out about their child using drugs. I
can really come to a shock to some people when they find out that their kid is
using drugs because they never saw it coming. I think that doing this
simulation was very helpful and made me realize that you may never know if
someone is using drugs or has an addiction to something.

Blog 3

This week in psychology we discussed the relationship between left and right brain hemispheres. We learned that just like right-hand vs. left head dominate, people are left brain or right brain dominate as well. People who are left brain dominate are more logic and organized people and people who are right brain dominate are more creative and see the big picture of things. While trying to figure out which side of our brain we use more each student took two left vs. right brain test. On one test I got strongly left brain and on the other I got in the middle with a 5.6.

In my opinion I think that the second quiz is more reliable and I feel that I am
more in the middle when it comes to using my brain. Although I tend to be more
left brained then right brained. I am an extremely organized and clean type of
person. I can’t stand when things are out of place. When I am solving problems
I use logic but also like to use creativity to make different things. I really enjoy music and creating scrapbooks while doing all of that I would be using my right brain. I may use
both sides of my brain, but more often than not I am a left brain dominate person.