5-20-2010

This week we have had work time to pick a project and finish it by the end of the school year, which by the way is like two weeks away. I choose to create the 10 page paper on ADD and ADHD. This topic is very interesting to me not only because i have ADD but also because others around me have this. They are saying taht ADD now a days is being misdiagnosed.
Now we have to read a book and do lit circles. I am reading A man searching for Meaning. I hope this book is interesting otherwise i probably will get really bored and mad that i have to read this in the last two weeks of my senior year. We have to do a couple worksheets on this book, which i am not happy about.
Now again Dreier just told us that we have to write a movie review on top of all the other things we have to do in here, if you cant tell i am not happy about all this stuff we have to do! I can not wait till summer!!!!!

Blog Post for 5-14

This week was a very busy week. We had our AP psych test, the gamblers had the most important game of there season, and school is ending soon. This blog post I am going to focus on supersitions. My boyfriend before every game has a routine that he has to do other wise he thinks he wont play well. He has to sleep till 11 then go to noodles and eat the same dish every time. He then has to go home watch a little bit of hockey and then nap until 330. He will dress from left to right. he thinks if he does not do the same thing even if he did have a good game he will blame it on that. One day i went to his house to pick up tickets and i screwed up his routine. He still scored a goal that night but had 3 shots on goal so he thinks because i delayed his nap time that he did not get the 3 shots. This supersition is kinda taking up and consuming time in his life, that is unneeded.

Blog for the week

This week one of the topics we talked about in class was love and how relationships work and how people will conform to others. dreier made a comment on how long distance relationships do not work because the people do not see each other. I tried to prove him wrong becasue my parents went 5 years with out living together or near each other. that same day i went home and asked how often my parents would visit each other and they said at the most 3 times a year. This will prove that long distance relationships can work and not everyone should conform to the response that long distance do not work. Conforming to others will make you look like a follower and not a leader. I am more likely to be unique and not follow others. This topic was interesting and i loved seeing dreier try and explain "Love" ha.

Emotions

This week we have been talking about emotions. Yesterday we took two quizes on identifying smiles if they are fake or if they are genuine. the second one was identifing emotions. if the gesture was happy sad etc. on the first quiz i could identify 15 out of 20 of the smiles. after the quiz Dreier told us to not look at the smile or teeth he told us to look at the eyes. well as i was taking the quiz i was only looking that the teeth. on the second one i got confused easily by what emotion they were trying to show. Did anyone else? Maybe that means im just not that intouch with my emotions. haha not. But i think this topic on emotions is very interesting.

Weekly blog

This week we focused on therapy and disorders. I find disorders very interesting. I have experienced bi polar disorder first hand. My older cousin has bi polar and at family events this affect everyone. Last christmas we were at family dinner and my boyfriend came with me. We were talking about his hockey career and all of a sudden she just started freaking out at him and everyone else around us. Later i found out that her ex boyfriend played hockey at thier high school and he recently broke her heart. I never knew how bi polar worked until her mother explained more about it. When reading the therapies and trying to relate them to the disorders on how you should treat each individual was somewhat hard. I always thought just talking out problems and giving them medicine will help them in thier life style. I really find this subject entertaining and interesting.

Two article summaries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/adult_attention-deficit_disorder.htm

This article was about AADD. We talked about ADD (attention Deficit disorder). This AADD is Adult attention Deficit disorder. They classified this as adults who have trouble getting work done, procrastination, or disorganized. They gave the statistic that this exists in about 2-4% of adults. Differing from childern symptoms the adults could show inattentive toward their childern, restlessness, and learning/emotional problems. One of the most promonate signs of AADD is acting with out thought. I picked this article because I too have ADD and I always wondered if you could have it in adulthood or if you learn how to be attentive.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/a/aggression.htm

This article is about aggression. This refers to the behavior that is intended to cause him or herself pain. They talk about how aggression can either be physical or verbal. One thing I found interesting is that behavior that is a accident but causes pain is not called aggression. They ask why do people hurt themselves or attempt to hurt others. they mention that the hypothalumus can cause aggression when electrically stimulated. I thought this was interesting that because of a part in your body you can become aggressive. I picked this article because i find it interesting when something can just set someone off on a tangent.

Intelligence

This week we took test that would tell us our IQ and other things. The pie chart test actually told you what type of learning you are better at. My pie chart told me that i would learn better for visual/spatial. I learn by reading the text over and using diagrams to study. For each chapter i use flash cards to learn the vocabulary. I can also learn with hands on acivities. I love doing stations and using my brains to create things or solve problems. I am not a very logical thinker so solving math problems or puzzles is a challenge to me. I love interacting with people and working as a group to create something. I work very well with others and get along with other. After this pie chart i understand now the best way for me to learn information.