Absolutely Crazy..

This week in class we talked about sight and perception. I found perceptual constancy really interesting. We looked at a few pictures and illusions showing shape, color, and size constancy, but my favorite were the color constancy ones. Color constancy is the perception that familiar objects have a constant color, even while illumination varies.

This was one of the images we looked at in class. You can see that the ground is a pattern of light and dark gray squares. There is also a shadow from the green cylinder. When you look at the square labeled A, it looks to be dark gray. When you look at the square labeled B, it looks to be dark gray. Next is the part that totally blew my mind..both squares A and B are the exact same color. Crazy, I know! I was trying to figure out a way to prove it and I figured out that if you slouch down really far in your chair and look at them, you can see that they are in fact the same color. It all has to do with the way the image lies on the retina. 

PSA reaction

I liked Kayla, Leigha and Courtney's video. They had a lot of places in their video that other people didn't include in theirs. They used pictures and did voice overs which made everything really easy to hear and understand. They talked about all of the different stages of development and how each relates to a different place in Ashwaubenon. They didn't make it super funny or over the top creative, but sometimes that's the best way to get the information across and still keep people watching.

Nell

This week in class we learned about all the different stages of development. We talked about all of the different things that occur at each stage. The first thing that came to mind was the story of Nell. Nell is a girl that lives in a log cabin in the middle of the woods. She has lived there her entire life with her mother, until her mother died. She was completely isolated from everyone and everything until a group of researchers discovered her existence. Nell had a different way of communicating. She knew how to speak, but she could not speak like everyone else. She had developed her own language. Because she had not had any human contact in such a long time, she continued to act in child like ways. Eventually they tried to teach her how to live in the real world. She went through some of the stages that a child would have gone through. You can see some of these in the trailer, such as the childish gesture of imitation. A young boy sticks his tongue out  at her and she imitates him by sticking her tongue out at him. The movie does a really good job of showing what happens when children do not go through all of the different stages of development.

Nell

Hello. My name is Devon and i'm addicted to ice cubes..

For the past 48 hours I felt like a total ninja. Having to constantly use ice cubes was a pain in the butt. Hiding the yarn on my wrist wasn't as hard as I would have thought it would be. I never really realized how sneaky a person had to be in order to hide an addiction. Obviously they have to be good at lying to people straight to their face, but it kind of takes over your mind. The whole time I was thinking about what I was going to do next, if anyone had seen me, if my family knew I was up to something, if there was ice in the freezer, how I was going to get ice to school, how I could hide the sound of the ice from hitting the side of the glass. A million thoughts were always going through my head. Most of the time I was thirsty because I couldn't get to the freezer without anyone seeing me. In order to get ice cubes to school I put my insulated water bottle in the freezer over night. In the morning I put a full tray of ice in it, filled a lunchbox with ice packs and then stuck the water bottle in the lunchbox full of ice packs. It worked great!! They lasted all day and all night. The only problem was that I had to hide the lunchbox in my backpack and carry some of my books around all day.
I was the only person at my table that had figured out how to keep ice cubes frozen at school. I got sick of everyone asking if they could have some, so I decided to become an ice cube dealer. Most people paid me with starburst. It was fantastic!! We didn't want anyone to find out what we were secretly doing in the hallways between passing time so we decided to give the ice cubes a code name. We called it...Frozen Drizzle. Genius, I know.
Sneaking frozen drizzle at home was a lot harder than it was at school. You can see my kitchen from all of the main rooms in the house. The first time I was making ice, my brother snuck up behind me. When I turned around and saw him I dumped the unfrozen drizzle allllllllll over the floor..oops. When he asked me what I was doing I told him I was cleaning the ice trays like I do every month. I told him not to judge, but i'm pretty sure he did anyway. The look that he gave me when I told him though may have been the most awkward funny face I have ever seen anyone make. ever.
The next morning I had to wake up earlier than usual to get my morning dose of frozen drizzle, and pack some for the rest of the day. For some reason my dad also decided to get up extra early, which is so unlike him. Anyway, I had the lunchbox, ice packs, water bottle, and tray of ice cubes sitting out on the counter. He walked in the kitchen, looked at the contents laying out on the counter, and went on to ask if I was packing a lunch for myself. Why, yes dad! How did you know that my favorite lunch was a tray of ice with a side of red and blue ice packs?! no..I was clearly not making myself a lunch. But I lied and told him that I was making myself a lunch and he responded by saying, "Okay. See you after school." Oblivious much?! Maybe just a bit..
Overall though, I really enjoyed the experiment. :)

cognitive differences in generations

Millennial generation has high levels of trust and optimism, stronger sense of connection to parents, friends and the world in general, strong team instincts and closer peer relationships,they support convention.
Technology helps cognitive abilities in different ways than books do. Both are good because they help different parts of the brain develop. Generation X does not have as much experience as the millennial generation does with these different sources that help cognitive development.

blog #3 The Woman Who Could Not Forget

This week in class we learned about the different parts of the brain and what they do. I found aphasia extremely  interesting, so I looked it up on YouTube to see what I could find. I did end up finding some really neat videos, but I actually found one about a woman who cannot forget anything. Jill Price has the ability to literally remember everything. Some people might find this really cool, but Jill has had many issues because of it. While she is able to remember the good things about her life, she also remembers all of the bad. It has brought her into a sort of depression. Nothing has been able to get her out of it. Most people say that all things heal over time, but for Jill that is the farthest thing from the truth. Doctors were studying her brain and found that certain parts are much larger than the average person. They think that it is closely related with OCD and may even be able to give them answers pertaining to other diseases as well.

The Woman Who Could Not Forget

brain article link

http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/21/why-the-latest-study-on-cell-phone-use-and-brain-cancer-wont-be-the-last-word/

read article
individually, summarize and elaborate on three things that you learned from the content of the article.
choose one thing from the article that you don't understand or would like to know more about.
be ready to discuss this tomorrow!