Blog #10

This term in psychology I think that I worked hard, but that I can improve on some of the things that I did. Even though I did all of the readings, I feel that I could have done more to understand the material and spend more time on them. I think that this next term I am going to spend more time on the readings and go over them more, so I can improve my grade and scores. I also think that I might try to study more and spread out my study time for this next them. I am also going to take more of the on-line quizzes to help me. Next term, I want to work even harder and try to improve my grade and study more for quizzes and test.

Blog #9

This week in psychology we read articles on memory. I found the articles to be quite interesting and worth reading. I found out things that I never knew before and I enjoyed reading them. The articles I read were "Forgetting is the New Normal" and "The Many Flavors of Memories". Both of the articles were about ways that can help improve your memory and help you remember more. Some things that were big and they pointed out were exercise, diet, and emotions.

The first article talks about how when you exercise your body produces more neurons and they fired together better. Just walking two miles a day can help improve your memory. You don't need to work out hard core or anything like that; just a little bit of exercise each day can help. This article also brings up the point of your diet and that certain foods can help you remember. Some foods that help are blueberries and walnuts. I am not a fan of either one of these foods, but maybe I will eat them every once in a while.

The second article talked about using drugs to improve your memory and giving people these drugs to help them remember past events. I don't agree with this and I think that it is terrible that researchers are using drugs on people to help with memory. This article also touches on emotions. The more emotion linked to an event the more likely the person is to remember the event in later years. I find that to be very true, if there are high emotions in something whether good or bad the more likely you are the remember the details of what happen.

I found both of these articles to be very interesting and informative. After reading these articles I had a better understanding of memory and ways to help improve your memory and slow down the process of memory loss in the future. I learned some new information; that exercise helps improve your memory and that blueberries can help, also.

Blog #8

This week in psychology we learned about memory. Memory is a very interesting topic and really caught my attention. I found it to be very exciting. I decided to look at video on memory and I found this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TausqSK9p9k.

I think that this video was very interesting and did a great job at going through all of the steps of memory.

It did a great job at explaining the steps involved in encoding, storage, and retrieval. It was also really good at explain the different between long-term and short-term memory and how each one of these steps work. It also explain how much and how long information can be storied. It also went a little into chucking.

Blog #7

One topic of the reading that I found interesting was operational conditioning. I find it to be super entertaining and strange. I think that having children do something just because they see someone doing it is fascinating. In the reading it brings up the bobo doll experiment and I found that to be quite interesting and decided to watch a video on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr0OTCVtHbU. This video really shows how a behavior can be shaped just by watching a person do and say things. I found the part when the little girl is in the room with other toys and the bobo doll and starts beating up the doll instead of playing with the other toys. This really goes to show that adults and other person need to watch what they say and do with children around.

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.

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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.