Disgust test

Go to the following link ( Disgust test )and answer the questions. After you are finished, come back to the blog and respond as to how learning and motivation defined your answers. Also add how much emotion played in making your answers.

Antwone Fisher

Please reply in an email. Antwone Fisher has a remarkable transformation despite a horrific childhood. What types of motivation and learning would he have had to experience in order to be a successful adult? What are the missing parts of this story?

Motivation

How does this video change your perception of motivation?

Lesson for the day, Wednesday, October 20

Good Morning,

I'm sure there is something for everyone as we look at learning and memory. There are three articles I'd like you to read. They're all pretty short and they're all about learning. Be sure to keep your comments about them to 15 lines. When you are finished, please spend the time working on something else.

Here are the links and have a good day. See you Thursday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19fob-medium-heffernan-t.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=learning%20psychology&st=cse

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1957114,00.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/28/national/main6526866.shtml

How do you learn?

From reading your responses here are some observations that I'd like you to address in your response:
- is memorizing the same as learning?
- should you have a good idea of how you learn?
- are some people born with certain talents and abilities?
- what does the statement "D's get degrees" mean versus the idea that requirements set benchmarks for acceptance?

Culture of Poverty

Read this article and respond. 15 lines please

Babies and Babble

Read this article and then add a 15 line discussion as to the importance of baby's babble as it relates to development

Biographical Sketch

Take some time and collect and write a background/biography about one of the following four individuals: Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Paris Hilton or Lindsey Lohan.

Human Development

Read and comment on the following article:

How the First Nine Months Shape the Rest of Your Life

By Annie Murphy Paul Wednesday, Sep. 22, 2010

What makes us the way we are? Why are some people predisposed to be anxious, overweight or asthmatic? How is it that some of us are prone to heart attacks, diabetes or high blood pressure?

There's a list of conventional answers to these questions. We are the way we are because it's in our genes. We turn out the way we do because of our childhood experiences. Or our health and well-being stem from the lifestyle choices we make as adults.

But there's another powerful source of influence you may not have considered: your life as a fetus. The nutrition you received in the womb; the pollutants, drugs and infections you were exposed to during gestation; your mother's health and state of mind while she was pregnant with you — all these factors shaped you as a baby and continue to affect you to this day.

This is the provocative contention of a field known as fetal origins, whose pioneers assert that the nine months of gestation constitute the most consequential period of our lives, permanently influencing the wiring of the brain and the functioning of organs such as the heart, liver and pancreas. In the literature on the subject, which has exploded over the past 10 years, you can find references to the fetal origins of cancer, cardiovascular disease, allergies, asthma, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, mental illness. At the farthest edge of fetal-origins research, scientists are exploring the possibility that intrauterine conditions influence not only our physical health but also our intelligence, temperament, even our sanity.

As a journalist who covers science, I was intrigued when I first heard about fetal origins. But two years ago, when I began to delve more deeply into the field, I had a more personal motivation: I was newly pregnant. If it was true that my actions over the next nine months would affect my offspring for the rest of his life, I needed to know more.

Of course, no woman who is pregnant today can escape hearing the message that what she does affects her fetus. She hears it at doctor's appointments, sees it in the pregnancy guidebooks: Do eat this, don't drink that, be vigilant but never stressed. Expectant mothers could be forgiven for feeling that pregnancy is just a nine-month slog, full of guilt and devoid of pleasure, and this research threatened to add to the burden.

But the scientists I met weren't full of dire warnings but of the excitement of discovery — and the hope that their discoveries would make a positive difference. Research on fetal origins is prompting a revolutionary shift in thinking about where human qualities come from and when they begin to develop. It's turning pregnancy into a scientific frontier: the National Institutes of Health embarked last year on a multidecade study that will examine its subjects before they're born. And it makes the womb a promising target for prevention, raising hopes of conquering public-health scourges like obesity and heart disease through interventions before birth.