The bookends of 4 generations of Martorells
Welcome to Human Development! This is somewhat of an experiment. I attended a teaching conference last year, and in one of the talks I attended they discussed how to rope students into listening by pretending to be young and hip like them stimulate online learning communities - and blogs were suggested. So, I'm giving it a shot.
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You may earn up to two points of extra credit for posting comments on the blogs. In order to quality for a point, a comment must add substance to the discussion. In other words, merely posting that you agree or disagree, or that you found a link or discussion interesting, is not sufficient. The deadline for fall quarter 2009 extra credit is November 30. At that point, the extra credit will be entered into blackboard.
I hope you had a great summer. I did.
I just realized - to get the extra credit, you've got to leave me some way to ID you. How about your student ID number? Or, alternatively, if you don't want anonymity, use your first name and last initial. Thanks, Gabi
ReplyDeleteThe part about language really struck my interest because to me it seems second nature. As people we do not remember the process of learning to speak. But what I am interested in, is bilingual children. When does a biliginual child differeniate that it is two languages that they know?
ReplyDelete-9418111678 Aisling S.
In this class, I've learn a lot about human development. I found some answers to my questions about how human think and behave and how does that influence each other. The part i like most is about Prenatal Development and Birth, because it benefits me many ways and I know that I need to be more careful when i am having a kid or family. I loved the video that we watched in class too.
ReplyDelete986153859 Hataya J.
My student ID is 905421943 Alison Reynolds, this is an extra credit blog
ReplyDeleteIn class we briefly studied the work of Albert Bandura, who is alive and going strong at I believe near 80. He is my favorite social cognitive theorist. Our book mentions his concept of self-efficacy.
According to Bandura, a person’s attitudes, abilities, and cognitive skills comprise what is known as the self-system. This system plays a major role in how we perceive situations and how we behave in response to different situations. Self-efficacy plays is an essential part of this self-system.
I have included a website for an organization (Population Media Center) that Bandura has collaborated with to do some of the most amazing work toward world change. The site below links to an article he wrote...BUT please take a minute to see how GENIUS this group is. They have created Soap Operas that are played to large masses that have made huge social impacts, such as reducing the spread of AIDs. The serial dramas use of role models, they weave stories that encourage the listener to feel empathy for the characters, living vicariously through these characters has softened the rigid beliefs in some cultures and opened doors that were otherwise closed, such as education for girls in Indian. The programs demonstrate role models that the listeners can model.
http://www.populationmedia.org/2009/06/23/albert-bandura-article-on-population-media-center/
Albert Bandura Article on Population Media Center
June 23rd, 2009 | Social Cognitive Theory Goes Global (PDF, 92 KB)
June 2009 issue of The Psychologist. The article describes the work of Population Media Center. Dr. Bandura is a member of PMC’s Program Advisory Board.
My id number is 919980737 and this is for the extra credit blog.
ReplyDeleteFirst off I wanted to start off by commenting on the posting about how much we are affected by what we physically feel. I had never thought that I would be more apt to think someone was friendly while drinking a warm drink, or more likely to use a sanitary wipe while talking about what I had done wrong in my life. I found that information fascinating. After reading that posting I am going to make a conscious effort to see if I witness any such circumstances in my own life. I am a very touchy person and therefore when I have a friend who often hugs me or uses physical contact as we talk I feel closer to that person.
I also wanted to comment on the post about your dog that had OCD traits. I found that so interesting because we were just told by the vet that one of our dogs has OCD tendencies. He originally had fleas and he got into a biting pattern when he felt itchy. Yet even after the fleas were gone he was in such a pattern of biting in that way that he was hurting himself. He also has this figure eight pattern that he runs in our backyard around the trees. He would be content to run laps all day long.
Hi, I would to say that this class has helped me in many ways I couldn't imagine. How adolescents grow up and how different environments, parents, siblings, and non-shared environments can factor into the way a baby can obtain personality, intelligence, and many other things. I need to be careful when having a kid because the littlest things can affect the outcome of a baby's future.
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ReplyDeleteWe just finished up with attachment theory in class. On a personal note it was interesting to me to see how early attachment may have an effect on later relationships. My sister's relationships and mine are very different. I think our unique upbringing from the same parents is a good model for this theory. In a nutshell. My sister is very smart, high up in the buisness world. She has a hard time with holding jobs and relationship, friends and lovers. She has been diagnosed bipolar. Anyway, she was in the bathtub when she was young with my other siser that drowned and died. My mom suffered extreme deppression and my sister still tries deperately to get that attachment she missed out on with her mother even at 39. I was a secure infant and the mother I knew was sensitive and responsive and I tend to have better luck with my relationships.
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ReplyDeleteMy Name is George C and my student ID is 940714578. I am submitting to this blog to attempt to receive extra credit.
Upon reading of the Attachment Theory of Chapter 14, formulated by British psychiatrist John Bolby, I began to think of the contextual variability of this theory. Bolby found that attachment is "a strong affectional tie that binds a person to an intimate companion". In an example given during the explanation of this theory it is understood that a child within close proximity of its parent or caretaker will be calm and freely explore its environment. In the brut natural context such as pre-civilized peoples living amongst predators to the starkly unnatural setting of warfare, peoples development can be stifled by not being able to function in a safe environment. One cannot engage in extracurricular endeavors such as learning algebra when life from minute to minute is threatened by enemies or predators. This phenomena can be seen ranging from the low achieving middle-school student with little to no familial support to the stagnation of the development of an entire nation's industry, arts and sciences from years of warfare. The reality is that real development on the personal and societal scale cannot occur with daily insecurity and developing strength in numbers through social attachment is an evolutionary buffer to allow for development of material and intellectual surplus.
Hello my name is alison, id #905421943
ReplyDeleteDuring the course we learned about the developmenal stages of babies. We believe babies may be smarter than we can test for. Sign Language has become a popular method for early communication with your baby. You may have heard of baby signing, the videos and books, well they have taken this to another level, with use of sign, babies can be potty trainned at one years old. With the use of a few signs the baby can communicate its "needs". The cost savings on diapers alone make this a book worth getting.
http://www.signingbaby.com/main/index.php?p=156
I felt this really shows how the desire to use language is inherient in us, and language development happens long before we can physically make the sounds.
Hi My name is Alyssa ID# 926359756
ReplyDeleteDuring this course I found the Personality and Self chapter the most interesting. It made me think of how difficult it was for me going through puberty because I really didn't know myself. I didn't know whether I was an extrovert or introvert, whether I was a better talker or listener, or anything else for that matter. I just relied on my athletic abilities... Whenever we played the name game in classes I was always "Athletic Alyssa" ...predictable I know... In high school we used to take "Personality Tests" or "Career Path Tests". I actually found them useful in discovering who I was as a person and what I wanted to do with my life. They may not be 100% accurate, but they do give feedback and make you think. However, the best way for me to discover who I was as a person and what my dreams and goals were was more life experience. In my first years of college I faced adversity and really struggled. But through those struggles I really found myself.
Anyway.. I just wanted to post on here my personal feedback from the chapter on Personality.
I also was wondering... does the Rorschach Inkblot test really indicate one's personality? How can someone's interpretation of random objects tell us who they are as a person?
Christina Meier ID 925959871
ReplyDeleteI thought that the video that we watched in class with the animals playing was awesome! It's so interesting to learn about the origins of stuff like PLAY! And it is really interesting to me to see animals using INTELLIGENCE and not necessarily just instincts. It seems as though a lot of humans don't believe that there are very many animals that "think" things through, but look at this video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmh2yUwhIA
If these animals didn't plan out what they were doing how did they end up doing these crazy things?! Animal behavior is every bit as fascinating as human behavior to me. It is clear that they have some level of true intelligence.
Wow incredible video :) I wonder if this has anything to do with the behaviorist approach of positive reinforcement. For example, the bird may have accidentally learned that dropping bread into the water would yield a fish. Perhaps in the past he had not meant to drop his food into the water but after catching the fish he was positively reinforced. It would seem that this bird has now been reinforced on several occasions and is able to purposefully setting the trap. These videos are really amazing (and funny) and could really stimulate some conversation about the different theories that could apply to these situations while controlling for animals' abilities to plan.
ReplyDeleteChristina Meier ID# 925959871
ReplyDeleteThe things that these animals do definitely could raise talk of many psychological theories. I was reading in my Biology book about a study that was preformed with crows: Basically, the crows were raised in isolation to ensure that they had never learned how to complete tasks from other animals. Then they are given a problem: There is a piece of food in a tube, but something like a small bucket is on top of it blocking it. They are given two wires, a bent wire and a straight wire and they will (pretty much) always choose the bent wire because they "know" that this is the one that they can use to hook the bucket off of the food. AND to add to that, when they accidentally drop the bent wire they will actually take the straight wire and bend it with their beaks, and THEN use it to remove the bucket and get to the food. AMAZING! These animals actually have cognitive thinking abilities.
Christina Meier ID # 925959871
ReplyDeleteOh, also I saw this on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg9QCeA4FJs
There is seriously something wrong with this Harlow guy. He took his experiments too far, in my opinion. He's scaring the living daylights out of these poor little monkeys. We wouldn't tolerate this being done to humans and I don't understand why it's okay to do to extremely intelligent animals, like primates. I don't believe any form of new knowledge is worth traumatizing these poor innocent animals.
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ReplyDelete"Social change requires development of resilience to adversity"
~Bandura
I followed the link to a poster several entries back who posted about Bandura's involvement with the Population Media Center, and organization dedicated to help to shift the "psychology of societies" by through the use of film and cinema. The quotes I pasted at the beginning of my post is from an article by Bandura on who societies change and evolve and how we can help to create positive change through the use of cinema that portrays positive role models and people changing for the better.
He used the example of women in societies and how the societies limit themselves the most from evolving by dis-empowering women and marginalizing them and placing a glass ceiling over their heads. The Population Media Center created a video called, "Tara" which is about a young woman in India whose mother believes in her education and creates pathways for her daughter to become educated and move through society in a new and different way.
I am a huge fan of this create site! I have always thought that if we could harness into the power of media for positive change rather than consumeristic and oppressive tendencies that it could be a very useful force. What a great organization. Psychologists, who understand the mind, working with media to purposefully try to improve worth and value of marginalized people across the globe. I am impressed.
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ReplyDeleteThis post is inspired by the post left by the author whose sister is bi-polar and suffers from the tragic family accident as a very small child. I do think that siblings can and do have a variety of different attachment styles, do to the way they attached as infants. I have witnessed it in my own family and I have seen it in others I have been close to. It's interesting though, because I wonder if some of it, comes from just plain and simple sensitivity levels and personal constitutions and personal resillency. For example, I had one of the hardest childhoods out of anyone I know. My mother was on drugs when I was an infant. Enough said. As an adult, I struggles with attachment, although I am able to have very close relationships. I know other people who had "secure" attachments and seem to struggle with relationships more than others. I agree with a lot of attachment theory, but resillency is very powerful and there is something to be said for it, we can't explain everything through science.