Watching this movie was very interesting. Clive has a memory of the 10 second tom from the movie 50 first dates. He believes that every two minutes or so he has been away or fell asleep.
Clive lost his basic memory and only remembers things that occur rutinely or evryday such as getting up and getting dressed for the day and so on. He keeps a diary close by and writes his thoughts that he feels are important to him. At one point in the day he will write i am awake for the first time and underline first time because he believes that he wakes several times a day because he can not remember when he actually did. It is kind of sad in a way that his can not remember his wife. He knows he loves her and is very excited to see her everytime she visits, but the only reason he recognizes her as his wife and not any other woman is the fact that he has it written down in his diary. She tries to remind him who she is and sometimes he finds himself angry and frustrated. Who wouldnt when you can barely remember those that are truly close to you? however, clive can still direct and make beautiful music. As his wife noted it is much like riding a bike to him, once you learn you just cant forget. I thought that was very cool!
i could not imagine being in the possition he is in, or trying to live out that lifestyle, but he makes it work. It's very cool that his wife still loves him and supports him because it must be so frustrating for her, not to meantion heart breaking to see him in that state. i dont know if i could do what they do. Then again, people always do crazy things when their in love.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Chapter 8
The memory chapter really stood out to me. I considered myself to have really good memory, that is until we did that experiment in class. I found myself struggling big time. As the test went on it became harder for me to remember. It came to me that memory, much like personality, is what defines us as who we are. We store certain memories in our bank by how much they affected us or touched us. By taking down those things, we become who we are. A child who suffers abuse may remember that struggle as a child and as an individual, has a hard time connecting to others in a relationship. Someone may struggle with the death of a loved one and later on becomes unattached to those near to them for fear of hurt. By the memories those two individuals had it affected them later on in their life. That is why memory is so important to us because it has a greater effect on us than we are to realize.
The memory has different levels as far as long term and short term. after that activity i realized i was very good at the short term! as you are younger your memory is stronger than those who age because your memory begins to weaken with time. However, older people are still very good at select long term memory subjects compared to short term ones such as paying the bills, losing their keys, or where they put the paper. I think im a throw up in between because i find myself forgetting alot of those things quite often. i can only imagine what its going to be like for me when i really do get old!
I really liked the concept of forgetfullness in this chapter. I always find myself questioning myself why i forget things that i was told to remember jsut earlier that day, but yet we still forget. The memories fade after storage known as the forgetting curve. sometimes the past interferes with what we recently learned. Or something recently learned interferes with something learned in the past. These were called proactive interference and retroactive interdference. Both working in opposite ways explaining why we often go blank minded from time to time!
The memory has different levels as far as long term and short term. after that activity i realized i was very good at the short term! as you are younger your memory is stronger than those who age because your memory begins to weaken with time. However, older people are still very good at select long term memory subjects compared to short term ones such as paying the bills, losing their keys, or where they put the paper. I think im a throw up in between because i find myself forgetting alot of those things quite often. i can only imagine what its going to be like for me when i really do get old!
I really liked the concept of forgetfullness in this chapter. I always find myself questioning myself why i forget things that i was told to remember jsut earlier that day, but yet we still forget. The memories fade after storage known as the forgetting curve. sometimes the past interferes with what we recently learned. Or something recently learned interferes with something learned in the past. These were called proactive interference and retroactive interdference. Both working in opposite ways explaining why we often go blank minded from time to time!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Chapter 7
I found the part of observational learning very interesting because i believe everyone does it! We all want to be like someone weather its an athlete, rockstar, or someone smart. We take in what we see an apply it to our life. You constantly see little boys wrestling around like they see on t.v. or girls trying to dress up pretty like the ones they read about. Sometimes it has its negative effects such as with girls trying to model. They may suffer eating disorders because of what they see and are trying to become. so in all that i found that part of the chapter to be extra interesting because i can relay it to just about everyone.
I know for a fact i have been exposed to classical conditioning. I have been swimming since i was very little and being underwater if your coach has something to say he cant just stop you. Whenever he wants your attention he will whistle one loud whistle. He whistles when he wants you to start a set, get your attention, or go faster. Either way the whistle is my signal. The one time i was in the mall of america with my sister and we got seperated from my parents and so my dad whistled, instantly both my sisters head and mine turned to look for the whistle and we found my dad. Trained on that sound i know i am a victim of classical conditioning!
I know for a fact i have been exposed to classical conditioning. I have been swimming since i was very little and being underwater if your coach has something to say he cant just stop you. Whenever he wants your attention he will whistle one loud whistle. He whistles when he wants you to start a set, get your attention, or go faster. Either way the whistle is my signal. The one time i was in the mall of america with my sister and we got seperated from my parents and so my dad whistled, instantly both my sisters head and mine turned to look for the whistle and we found my dad. Trained on that sound i know i am a victim of classical conditioning!
Chaper 6
In this chapter i really found it interesting how we convert energy and light into actual things! Its not that we take in an object, we take in the light surrounding it, the hue that color is, the brightness, the intensity, everything! All of it working together to simply form what we see everyday. I believe alot of us take that simple work of art for granted everyday that our eyes function properly to send the signals to the brain to paint a picture in our head. It really is magnificant.
It was also really cool to find how all of our senses work together to do their job. The one that stood out to me most was taste. Taste only has the 5 components but without the other senses such as smell for example we wouldnt be able to distinguish those tastes. The sensory interaction playing its part. Now i understand why my parents told me to hold my nose if i had to eat something i didnt like! you really have no sense of taste without the smell that goes with it. Just another example of how our system was perfectly created to work with itself to perform all the everyday tasks that we over look. Very interesting stuff!
It was also really cool to find how all of our senses work together to do their job. The one that stood out to me most was taste. Taste only has the 5 components but without the other senses such as smell for example we wouldnt be able to distinguish those tastes. The sensory interaction playing its part. Now i understand why my parents told me to hold my nose if i had to eat something i didnt like! you really have no sense of taste without the smell that goes with it. Just another example of how our system was perfectly created to work with itself to perform all the everyday tasks that we over look. Very interesting stuff!
Chapter 6 - Illusion Blog
For this assignment i practiced on the following tutorials: Motion Induced Blindness
Snake Illusion Ad Lib
Motion After Effect
Eye Jitter
The Enigma
Pyramid Illusion
Contrast Constancy
and Hering Illusion
Through out all of these i really enjoyed the motion after effect and hering illusion one the best! I learned through all of this that your eyes can never stand still. Even though they are focusing on one object they may flutter or twitch after they get fatigued from looking at the same thing for so long. In doing this it creates illusions and we begin to see things that arent really even there.
It really surprised me in the motion after effect the way the frozen picture looked after staring at the lines for so long. You stared at these black and white moving squares and then suddenly a still picture appeared and your eyes made it seem as if that picture were moving and expanding right in front of you. It was really crazy! It definately made me think to myself that things are really not as they may appear. After doing the Hering Illusion i really look at things differently. The red lines on all the graphic looked as if they were crooked, then when you put the mouse over the graphic it disappeared to show the red lines really were straight the entire time. After seeing that it made me want to look at everything entirely different because i know now that not everything is as it appears. You need to look deeper into it that what you see first glance!
Snake Illusion Ad Lib
Motion After Effect
Eye Jitter
The Enigma
Pyramid Illusion
Contrast Constancy
and Hering Illusion
Through out all of these i really enjoyed the motion after effect and hering illusion one the best! I learned through all of this that your eyes can never stand still. Even though they are focusing on one object they may flutter or twitch after they get fatigued from looking at the same thing for so long. In doing this it creates illusions and we begin to see things that arent really even there.
It really surprised me in the motion after effect the way the frozen picture looked after staring at the lines for so long. You stared at these black and white moving squares and then suddenly a still picture appeared and your eyes made it seem as if that picture were moving and expanding right in front of you. It was really crazy! It definately made me think to myself that things are really not as they may appear. After doing the Hering Illusion i really look at things differently. The red lines on all the graphic looked as if they were crooked, then when you put the mouse over the graphic it disappeared to show the red lines really were straight the entire time. After seeing that it made me want to look at everything entirely different because i know now that not everything is as it appears. You need to look deeper into it that what you see first glance!
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