Artical 2

I thought this artical was interesting because to think that people somehow remember something that they witness first hand better than something that happens to them. How reliable do you think our memory actually is? What makes eye- witness memory more memoriable than people's memories of own past intentions? What do you think is triggered in the brain when you eye- witness something that isn't triggered in the brain when your own memories are being formed? I thought it was interesting that only one out of every five participants gave a consistent reason or reasons at both time points. I also thought it was interesting the way they conducted their study. In their study they took 600 undergrads and had them answer open ended questioins based on why they'd buy, download, or copied their most recently acquired album. I also thought it was interesting that in the study, 6 months to a year later they provied the same information again to those same 600 undergrads. After answering those sets of questions the students fell into 5 main categories whether they liked the artist, they liked the music, liked a specific song or songs, whether someone recommended the album, or whether they needed the album for a specific purpose.

Artical 1

I think that the study was interesting because they showed a man who had suffered from a stammer his whole life and shortly after suffering from a stroke was the stammer cured. What was it that caused the stroke to cure his stammer? Will his stammer ever come back? Why has the stammer remained absent? I found it interesting that by having a stroke and the damaged it caused reversed his stammer. The previous research stated that people who stammer have exaggerated activation in the cerebellum. The research also showed that simply by slowing down the man speech somehow aided his stammer. The researchers concluded that the cerebellum and or its connections with the brain structures has an important role in maintaining developmental stammering.

Inside the Teenage Brain

Why was he so oppositional? Why did he think it was cool to be mean to his parents? Why did he keep trying to challenge his dad? Why would he constantly talk back even though he could see how much it upset his mom? It took his parents several tries to get him up out of bed. He's a completely different kid outside of the house. Charlie thinks that no one understands him. Teenagers don't think about what they are saying. Teenagers aren't a kid but they are still not a kid either. Charlie is very smart with his parents. teenagers don't like to be under their paremts rules so tenton rises.

Wild Child

What led the father to do that to her? Will she ever become a normal child and funtion as a normal child? Was she mentally chanllenged from birth or did this ordeal make her disabled? Are Victor and Genie both the same because they were mentally challenged from birth? It is an interesting counicdence that Genie was discovered a week before the movie about Victor premired. They tried to put to rest the debate on whether or not they could teach a child how to speak after a certain age. What happened to her brother? Who takes care of her now? Why didn't the stat of federal goverment step in with funding to make a custity decicion? Where is she now and has she overcome any of her disabilities?

Social Struggles

"When I looked at my friends howling and high-fiving eachother, I finally realized that I was going to be the first guy in our pathetic circle to grow up." pg 5
The story I took the quote from is about a big shot, popular basketball player in high school (Shad) that falls in love with a smart or nerdy girl(Darcy). The begining of the story sounds alot like high school musical (not that I have seen it) except for their was no singing and dancing, noone looks like Zack Efron and their isnt a happy ending. In the story Shad and Darcy start to like eachother and start dating and spend alot of time together but they keep there relationship private. After a wile Shad's friends start to notice that he is missing things and eventually find out that he is dating Darcy. His friends ridicule and alienate him to the point where he begins to second guess his entire relationship. Shad begins to ignore Darcy and blow her off because he is tired of being made fun of. The quote I chose is from a part in the story where after being ignored and avoided Darcy goes up to Shad at lunch and yells at him and tells him how he has been acting and gives Shad's friends love notes that Shad had writen for Darcy. As Shad watches his friends laughing at him he relizes that he will be the first one to grow up in his group. After losing darcy for ever he relizes that its not about high school social classes it is about what kind of person you are and what kind of person you want to be with. I thing this is a very good story because it depicts the social structure of an average high school pretty accurately and shows what good things can happen when you try to cross those social boundries and also the bad that can come from getting caught up in the social presures and normalities of normal high school life.

glog

For my glog i used pictures of nuerons for the back ground and some of my pictures represent the mistery behind the human brain. The other pictures are of MRI scans of the brain and the activity of each part.



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Chicken Soup for the teenage soul 3

This book is a composition of storys that tell about the normal struggles of life as a teenager. in the first part it has stories about relationships. The very first story is a story that stresses the importance of a relationship with yourself. in the story he buys himself a flower and the significance of this is that it shows the self love he has for himself and that even when he is alone on valentines day he still has himself.