OCD

During this week while I was in class we were learning about OCD. Besides from watching the extremely entertaining videos at times, I also felt as if by seeing these examples I too was becoming compulsive. But for me that day it was over not having my phone on me. During lunch hour just before class I remembered putting my phone in my jacket pocket, but while in class I didn't have it. It drove me crazy, I couldn't stop thinking about it, and where I could have left it..Even though I knew it most likely fell in between my seat and center console in my car, which is exactly where it was when I got to my car hurriedly. Now my question is do I have cellphone OCD haha? Because I did have all the things someone with OCD would really have anxiety, consistent reminding thoughts, and even repeitive actions like checking my pockets repeatly even though I knew from checking my pockets before that I didn't have it on me...is this a OCD condition, or just a small version of what though people really feel on a consistent daily matter?

response chains

When I was about 9 or 10 years old I was conditioned by my goalie coach Sam when I played for Team Illinois using response chains to go down in the butterfly (two legs on the ice) and use one legs to get up all in once motion to push to the other side of the crease using the right leg to go to the left as an example. We did this so much and so repetitively that it eventually became second nature to me, which is very important to have in your arsenal of movements as a goaltender. And eventually after getting the basics down and the movement down we increased the speed of the motion, since it was second nature to me at that point, and I could carry over those quickened movements to the games.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4muo6jXzLX8

Behavior

In school like we talked about earlier in the week about how you are conditioned to do..and at my Catholic grade school they made sure that we did that. It would be a automatic detention if you forgot to write your name on your paper..As you can tell Mrs. Head was one heck of a nasty teacher

There the behavior was writing you name on every single paper and my reward was not getting a detention which was a negative reinforcement. And the schedule would be a fixed ratio 1:1 schedule. The reason being because it was on every single paper

Letter

At the start of class I found the material pretty difficult to retain. I had confusion on things, and it seemed that I wasn't retaining alot of the information well. Now as off recently with your change in the format of class I've seen improvement and retention of the information. Overall I really enjoy the class, the work load is perfect, and the class is really relax.. Don't change anything, love the class.

2 big vs 3 smalls

This week during class we learned about cognitive develop, and Piaget stages of classification. It was so ironic to me that when Mr. Drier explained how children would chose based on the number of slices of pizza..but in reality they would be taking less amount of pizza due to the size of the slices. A similar thing happened when right in front of my own eyes Wednesday night when my billet sister Tatum started to scream and cry at me when I tried to give her the wider bowl of chips that actually had way more chips then the less wide bowl that I wanted to enjoy. It just made me laugh and immediately left the room with a chuckle and a glimpse of dejavu of the concept from class that that was so humorous to me later that day




Also for the other concepts of Piaget enjoy!

Brain Dieases

This week in class we went over brain diseases, some I never knew existed or could exist. I was dumfounded by some like savant syndrome. I would have to say honestly that it was the most intriguing topics I have ever learned about in my education so far! But anyways when we learned about savants and how their right brain takes over for the lack of a better words, for the impaired, disabled, or destroyed left brain. It immediately had me thinking through the amazement for myself, what if the brain impairment took place in the right brain rather in the left? At this point when I was thinking about and relating it back to what we had learned about the left brain and how it was the more logical mathematical half of the brain. What if "savant left syndrome" could be the solution to finding ways through mathematics to reach planets we've never been to, cure some of the most extreme illnesses, and redefine cities, or possibly solve crime all in ways that no one person have even thought of being able to do. This thought that I had in class was somewhat triggered from the class presentation and the combination of the show Numb3ers, where a mathematical genius solves crime for the FBI. Which something I could believe someone that a left brained savant souls have the ability to do, in my thinking. Maybe I just get to hyped up in the show..but it got me thinking

Left or Right Training

From our discussions this week referring especially to the left brain right brain discussions I ask the question of "Can someone be more extreme right brain or left brained if they were very dominate with either one noticeable more then the other?" But, since asking that question knowing that right brain is "artistic" and less "logical" then right brain folks.. What if someone trained themselves like some parents to their children when they're infants to become the handedness of their choice. But, the first question that came to my mind was is the brain to fully developed and wired to permanently to rewire it as an adult? Just think what if a left brained logical person could rewire themselves to accommodate their their job? Then as I was in my life issue's class on Thursday and we were talking about love, lust, and marriage the same question arose to me, what if someone could rewire themselves to match their mate's brain. Because if you think about it the divorce rate in America is 60%. What if the rewiring to become more like each other could save marriages, and give more children in America the wholesome family lifestyle, rather then a separated controversial one.