Monday, May 16, 2011
The Forgetting: a Video about Alzheimer's
I knew what the disease was. It was when old people started to forget everything. Who they were and everything around them, including the people who loved them. I recently learned that the disease also killed. When we were about to watch the film in psychology, I was not aware of how dangerous this disease was and how much it effect everyone.
I did not know that the disease was so horrible, that people forgot how to react to their love ones. There was an elder lady who had the disease and they filmed a scene with her four year old grandson. She kept yelling at him and calling him stupid and telling him to shut up and that she didn't like him. Being only four years old, the boy didn't understand what was happening to his grandmother, but all he could do was yell back and cry. He doesn't understand why his grandmother was being mean to him and that hit me hard.
There was also another old woman, just only in her 50's or 60's who looked about 80 or more years old. She had an advance version of the disease. Her mood always change, she communicated with little language, and didn't know her own strengths. Sometimes she would cry and sometimes she would laugh. She pushed people and touch their faces, but she couldn't communicate through language or used very little of it. Her family visited her and the person they once knew, who could walk and knew who they were, was totally gone.
Almost a year ago, in the spring of 2010, my own grandmother started to show symptoms of forgetting. One day she was driving and was on a curb, but didn't know how she got there. By the time September came, she could no longer support herself and forgot dates and short-term information. The doctors say it is NOT alzheimer's but rather that she is getting older. She will be 91 in June.
Now, after a year of finding out my grandmother doesn't have this terrible disease, she lives in a senior housing corp and she has an aide who comes every other day. She writes everything down on her calender and she constantly needs someone to make sure she takes her pills. She comes over every night for dinner and sometimes a late night movie. During noon time, my older cousin's wife help out since she works in the school system near by. My grandmother still has trouble with dates and calls my mom everyday to know the date and she often calls my mom to remember what's going on that day.
One of the hard parts for me is during dinner. My grandmother will ask me, "How was school today?" or "What are you up to?" and I will answer her, but 5min later she will ask the same question and I will answer again. This usually goes on for about 30min or so at the dinner table. She asks everyone the same question and it does get annoying. Even though it is annoying me, I can only imagine what it is like with someone who has alzheimer's disease.
Even though my grandmother forgets things, we all support her and try to help out. Sometimes I go home with her to her apartment and help my mom bring in her groceries. Sometimes on weekends I drive her to places and help her carry things. But my family and I will always be there for my grandmother because we know how important family is.
I did not know that the disease was so horrible, that people forgot how to react to their love ones. There was an elder lady who had the disease and they filmed a scene with her four year old grandson. She kept yelling at him and calling him stupid and telling him to shut up and that she didn't like him. Being only four years old, the boy didn't understand what was happening to his grandmother, but all he could do was yell back and cry. He doesn't understand why his grandmother was being mean to him and that hit me hard.
There was also another old woman, just only in her 50's or 60's who looked about 80 or more years old. She had an advance version of the disease. Her mood always change, she communicated with little language, and didn't know her own strengths. Sometimes she would cry and sometimes she would laugh. She pushed people and touch their faces, but she couldn't communicate through language or used very little of it. Her family visited her and the person they once knew, who could walk and knew who they were, was totally gone.
Almost a year ago, in the spring of 2010, my own grandmother started to show symptoms of forgetting. One day she was driving and was on a curb, but didn't know how she got there. By the time September came, she could no longer support herself and forgot dates and short-term information. The doctors say it is NOT alzheimer's but rather that she is getting older. She will be 91 in June.
Now, after a year of finding out my grandmother doesn't have this terrible disease, she lives in a senior housing corp and she has an aide who comes every other day. She writes everything down on her calender and she constantly needs someone to make sure she takes her pills. She comes over every night for dinner and sometimes a late night movie. During noon time, my older cousin's wife help out since she works in the school system near by. My grandmother still has trouble with dates and calls my mom everyday to know the date and she often calls my mom to remember what's going on that day.
One of the hard parts for me is during dinner. My grandmother will ask me, "How was school today?" or "What are you up to?" and I will answer her, but 5min later she will ask the same question and I will answer again. This usually goes on for about 30min or so at the dinner table. She asks everyone the same question and it does get annoying. Even though it is annoying me, I can only imagine what it is like with someone who has alzheimer's disease.
Even though my grandmother forgets things, we all support her and try to help out. Sometimes I go home with her to her apartment and help my mom bring in her groceries. Sometimes on weekends I drive her to places and help her carry things. But my family and I will always be there for my grandmother because we know how important family is.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Bandura Post
In a few sentences, list any and all specific media or cultural items that your parents or grandparents think are bad influences on you, and explain the impact that these items have had on you if any (i.e. specific types of music, video games, TV, movies, celebrities, specific sites on the internet, etc.)
TV: how teenagers, actresses/actors, famous people dress and act on TV. Has no effect on me.
Internet: We get attach to the internet and learn things just by researching it and communicating with other people, including strangers. Has very little effect on me.
Technology: Growing rapidly, especially among teenagers and not being good for our health. Technology has effect how I do work, learn, and play games. I rarely go outside and play or excersie.
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One of the people I mostly imitate is my mother because she is a single mom, I never had the chance to imitate anyone else. She was the only adult that raised and took care of me as a child. My mother is kind and cares about people and she is a good person. She has taught me that everyone is equal and no one is different because of how he/she looks. I will never forget the one time we went to Shoprite in town and someone working there was a Muslim. My mother talked to her with a smile and talked about the heavy rain outside. Before leaving, the lady told my mother, “be safe out there,”. After that, my mother taught me that there are many ideas out there, but none of them are correct or number one, despite what people say. Even our religion is something that we believe in, but it doesn't make it right to say it is the number one religion, only because it works for us and no one else.
Believe it or not, I will say my “attitudes” are from my teachers, not my mother. I see how my teacher's attitudes are and I feel like I copy that. If I am in a room with a really nice and excited teacher, I will be excited too. I could be excited for the whole day. If a teacher is upset or angry, I will be upset or angry by the time I am out of the class.
Everything else I have like the way I speak, thinking, behavior, and habits are things that are me. I had trouble speaking as a child, so my speaking is unique and people say my thinking is very strange and thought provoking. My mother doesn't even know where my “process thinking” came from, I think it something I grew from myself. My behavior and habits are similar, like twirling a pencil or sucking on my tongue when I'm bored. My habits and behavior are also things that are my own because no one I know do them, just me. It's nothing I picked up on TV or from any living person. So a lot of things are actually things that I never saw imitating.
TV: how teenagers, actresses/actors, famous people dress and act on TV. Has no effect on me.
Internet: We get attach to the internet and learn things just by researching it and communicating with other people, including strangers. Has very little effect on me.
Technology: Growing rapidly, especially among teenagers and not being good for our health. Technology has effect how I do work, learn, and play games. I rarely go outside and play or excersie.
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One of the people I mostly imitate is my mother because she is a single mom, I never had the chance to imitate anyone else. She was the only adult that raised and took care of me as a child. My mother is kind and cares about people and she is a good person. She has taught me that everyone is equal and no one is different because of how he/she looks. I will never forget the one time we went to Shoprite in town and someone working there was a Muslim. My mother talked to her with a smile and talked about the heavy rain outside. Before leaving, the lady told my mother, “be safe out there,”. After that, my mother taught me that there are many ideas out there, but none of them are correct or number one, despite what people say. Even our religion is something that we believe in, but it doesn't make it right to say it is the number one religion, only because it works for us and no one else.
Believe it or not, I will say my “attitudes” are from my teachers, not my mother. I see how my teacher's attitudes are and I feel like I copy that. If I am in a room with a really nice and excited teacher, I will be excited too. I could be excited for the whole day. If a teacher is upset or angry, I will be upset or angry by the time I am out of the class.
Everything else I have like the way I speak, thinking, behavior, and habits are things that are me. I had trouble speaking as a child, so my speaking is unique and people say my thinking is very strange and thought provoking. My mother doesn't even know where my “process thinking” came from, I think it something I grew from myself. My behavior and habits are similar, like twirling a pencil or sucking on my tongue when I'm bored. My habits and behavior are also things that are my own because no one I know do them, just me. It's nothing I picked up on TV or from any living person. So a lot of things are actually things that I never saw imitating.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
My Learning Styles
I took three different learning style tests to see which learning style fits me. Here are the results:
Self: You have a very good sense of self. You like to spend time by yourself and think things over. You will often take in
information from another person, mull it over by yourself, and come back to that person later to discuss it. You like working on projects on your own. You often prefer to learn by trial and error. Effective techniques to enhance your learning include keeping a journal and giving yourself time to reflect on new ideas and information. More ideas: Go on "guided imagery" tours. Set aside time to reflect on new ideas and information. Encourage journal writing. Work on the computer. Practice breathing for relaxation. Use brainstorming methods before reading. Listen to and read "how to" tapes and books. Read cookbooks.
You learn best when physically engaged in a "hands on" activity. In the classroom, you benefit from a
lab setting where you can manipulate materials to learn new information. You learn best when you
can be physically active in the learning environment. You benefit from instructors who encourage
in-class demonstrations, "hands on" student learning experiences, and field work outside the
classroom.
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My results say that I learn better when I do "hands on" activities and working alone. I do feel that learning through hands on is better for me because I can easily lose interest in a lesson when I have to listen to a lecture or write meaningless things down. If I want to understand something I have to do it. I can't just imagine it, I have to see it and feel it myself. I often do like to learn things on my own or by myself, although I often think a bit too much and need to discuss it with someone.
I did do hands on activities when I took science courses during the first three years of high school. The first two years I learned a lot because we used a program on the computer where I was able to see what was happening and have control over it with my laptop. I loved having labs that including getting up and doing experiments. But in junior year, I mostly had to take notes and re-read power points, but it was pointless and I didn't learn and ended up getting a bad grade. Math was hard too because numbers don't make sense to me and the results of most of my tests explained that math logic was my weakest point in learning.
In psychology we did an activity where I had a partner and she was blind folded. We both had to work together to tie a shoe. While she was blind folded, I was the only one who could speak. We tied one hand behind our backs and got to work. This helped me learn the difference between the left and right hemisphere of the human brain. We also did an activity where my teacher gave us some powder in a cup. While reading us a story, every time he said the character's name, we had to dip our finger in the powder and lick it. After the lesson I learned how classical conditioning worked on humans and if we didn't do that hands on activity first, I don't think I would had been able to grasp the concept.
I do believe the tests were accurate because it really describe my learning style. I was extremely surprised to see how accurate it really was, though I will admit I do not believe it is 100% accurate, but maybe more like 90% accurate.
Self: You have a very good sense of self. You like to spend time by yourself and think things over. You will often take in
information from another person, mull it over by yourself, and come back to that person later to discuss it. You like working on projects on your own. You often prefer to learn by trial and error. Effective techniques to enhance your learning include keeping a journal and giving yourself time to reflect on new ideas and information. More ideas: Go on "guided imagery" tours. Set aside time to reflect on new ideas and information. Encourage journal writing. Work on the computer. Practice breathing for relaxation. Use brainstorming methods before reading. Listen to and read "how to" tapes and books. Read cookbooks.
You learn best when physically engaged in a "hands on" activity. In the classroom, you benefit from a
lab setting where you can manipulate materials to learn new information. You learn best when you
can be physically active in the learning environment. You benefit from instructors who encourage
in-class demonstrations, "hands on" student learning experiences, and field work outside the
classroom.
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My results say that I learn better when I do "hands on" activities and working alone. I do feel that learning through hands on is better for me because I can easily lose interest in a lesson when I have to listen to a lecture or write meaningless things down. If I want to understand something I have to do it. I can't just imagine it, I have to see it and feel it myself. I often do like to learn things on my own or by myself, although I often think a bit too much and need to discuss it with someone.
I did do hands on activities when I took science courses during the first three years of high school. The first two years I learned a lot because we used a program on the computer where I was able to see what was happening and have control over it with my laptop. I loved having labs that including getting up and doing experiments. But in junior year, I mostly had to take notes and re-read power points, but it was pointless and I didn't learn and ended up getting a bad grade. Math was hard too because numbers don't make sense to me and the results of most of my tests explained that math logic was my weakest point in learning.
In psychology we did an activity where I had a partner and she was blind folded. We both had to work together to tie a shoe. While she was blind folded, I was the only one who could speak. We tied one hand behind our backs and got to work. This helped me learn the difference between the left and right hemisphere of the human brain. We also did an activity where my teacher gave us some powder in a cup. While reading us a story, every time he said the character's name, we had to dip our finger in the powder and lick it. After the lesson I learned how classical conditioning worked on humans and if we didn't do that hands on activity first, I don't think I would had been able to grasp the concept.
I do believe the tests were accurate because it really describe my learning style. I was extremely surprised to see how accurate it really was, though I will admit I do not believe it is 100% accurate, but maybe more like 90% accurate.
Monday, April 11, 2011
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