TED TALK FINAL REFLECTION 

I can't believe its already time to put a close on my 20 project. Looking back it was a good experience  however I didn't really know what was expected. I wish I had done more and also kinda of wish I chose a final project that I felt I could have done more on, something that I would have been more interested in. So because I didn't chose a project that I could do a lot on I struggled to find a final project to do. I created a Facebook page that I post on and post pictures and articles that have to do with climate change, ways to help or just cool facts. Sometime i posted quotes that i thought were interesting as well. 

Here is my 20 time TED TALK 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMOR5Kvlnc&list=PLXVa0vGCksTaQxb0DUCUENbC9LuWRDKTr&index=20

Looking bad on my TED Talk it should have been longer and I could have gone more into detail. I got nervous while I was up there and lost my train of thought. I also wish I told that I didn't do much with this project. I found out there was only so much you can do with my topic because it is not something that one individual can change on their own, so i gave up on my project. I wish I hadn't done that, however i learned that i should be a litter more careful on the topic i chose. I think that I should have had more thought going into this project and when i was feel lost and confused on where to go, I should have gone and gotten help, and not have waited tell the last minute to put it all together, 

Also in my ted talk i talked slowly and clearly, but i repeated a few things, so i do think i could have practiced more and could have prepared myself better. 

Looking back i took this as a learning experience. I know understand what i expected and what to do, and what I need to do/practice more for future projects like this that may come to me in the future. 

I really enjoyed being able to do this, however i do hope i get to do something similar to this in the future so i can put more effort into it. 

Reflex Lab

1. Photopupillary Reflex
1.  I think humans have evolved this reflex because our eyes are sentitive to light. I think that if we didnt have this reflex we may be blind because that bright light would damage functions in the eye. 

1. Knee Jerk Reflex
1. I think this type of sensory receptor in the muscle receiving the stimuli is a motor receptor. The reaction to the thigh musle to this reflex is to make the lower part of the leg "jump''. I think humans have evolved this reflex because it is what allows us to have movement. WIthout reflexes we would not be able to react quickly to things that occur fast. 
2. after 30 seconds of air squats the relfex was less vigorous/sever than before. This was because all the ATP had depleted. 

1. Blink Reflex
1. Yes i blinked when the cotton ball was thrown at me. I think that humans have this reflex because we want to react when something is coming towards us fast or unexpected. Its instincts that something bad may happen if you don't react.

1. Babe whats you sign?
1. My response was that my toes spread. Yes thats normal because it shows that you have those sensory receptors to touch. It shows that you have feelings withing that part of your body and when the cap is dragged along the bottom of your foot it is kinda painful which causes your toes to want to spread. 
2. if a person had MS they would not show this same relfex because they lack the sensory recptors in their body, 

1. How fast are you?
1. in the first experiment Angela was faster than Kelly. Its all about reaction time, some people have faster reactions to things like this. It all depends on the reaction to the recptors and the way in communicates with the brain.
2. Being distracted caused the times to be greater. They had a slower reaction to the dropping ruler because they were focused on something else. Their brain was focused on soemthing else not having any sense of their surroundings. The 2second rule we learned in drives ed applys to this in the fact that it takes just as long to react to whats going on around you You are focused on something else and if I threw a ball at a person that was texting the ball would probably hit them before they saw it coming because their sensory and motor receptors we not communication with them. 

In this lab, I worked in a group of three. I was tested on most of the reflexes except the "how fast are you". I think it would have been better if the other group members did the other reflexes because then we would get to see how they reacted to these reflexes as well. This lab was to see the different reflexes what we have and how we reacted to them, how quick we reacted to them and why we reacted to them.

20 Time Final Reflection

My 20 time experience was average. I think that I could have tried harder but as i got further into my project I found that I was finding the same information. So I started to slack off. Same thing happened when I talked to 

people about climate change. I got pretty much the same causes and affects. However they each had a different opinion of what climate change was. 

Going into the project I have a different view of what climate change was. For starters I love to ski. It was one of my biggest passions, if i could ski all year around I would. However Climate Change has caused the snow impact to change. So i wanted to see what else Climate Change was affecting. 

There was only so much I could do with this topic. Cilmate Change is not something that an individual can change. And even if everybody in the whole USA changed things in their lives it woiuldnt be enough to change or even stop climate change. Climate change is happening, it has been happening since the beginning of civilazation and meteroligist are predicting that our climate will just keep on changing. 

I had a few goals set. However i didn't reach all of them. I wanted a better understanding of what climate change is, What happens when our climate begins to change? why does it occur? and so much more. 

I got a better understanding of why climate change is so important. You hear about all the greenhouse emissions, CO2 release, wild fires, health issues, coast erosion that is all an effect of our climate change. 

I learned simple ways people could help limit the amount of CO2 that they release in their homes by using solar pannels, walking to school rather than driving or even using a carpool or public transportation, driving an electric car, using energy efficent lightbulds (LEDs). Limit the amount of coal you burn. All these things a person can do. They have to be the ones that have to make the change because we cant force them to change, they have to be the ones that want to make a difference. When people start changing these things, other people will see the change, they will start changing things and then we will have that chain reaction. However someone needs to be the one to start it. Its hard to get the word out there. Some people think it a stupid thing to do however climate change is not stupid, we as a nation are being stupid by not helping. 

I don't think I will continue with this project because, i have already learned what i want. I feel that i got a understanding of what i wanted to learn, however i just feel that others don't want to hear it. They don't want to help or change to make a difference in our world. \

This was a fun project to do. I learned what i wanted but like i said. i slacked off after a while. I could have put in a lot more time and effort but i got bored soon into the project. I found that it was hard to keep going. I chose a topic that i thought i would like but in the end looking back i think i rather have chose a different topic, something that could have kept me going. something that i could create a final product. Something that i could take away and look back in a few years and be like "wow, i used that today" you all get what i mean. 

Cerebral Cortex

1.   What do the frontal lobes do?

The Frontal lobes is the part of the brain that controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language,

2.   What is the relationship between selective attention and learning? Selective attention is the capacity for or process of reacting to certain stimuli selectively when several occur simultaneously, where learning is being able to process/ understand a new topic in depth and for your brain to process the information.

3.   What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating? The Frontal Lobe is the most recently-evolved part of the brain and the last to develop in young adulthood. It's dorso-lateral prefrontal circuit is the brain's top executive. Its hard to prevent it from deteriorating.

4.   What does the neo cortex do? is part of the cerebral cortex which are cortical parts of the limbic system). It is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language.

5.   What is the role of the pre frontal cortex In mammalian brain anatomy, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the cerebral cortex which covers the front part of the frontal lobe.The prefrontal cortex is the cerebral cortex which covers the front part of the frontal lobe.

What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking? While the right and left sides of the prefrontal cortex work together when focused on a single task, the sides work independently when people attempt to perform two tasks at once. Multitasking doesn’t just slow you down and increase the number of mistakes you make; it temporarily changes the way your brain works.

6.   Which part of the brain is associated with speech and language development?  Give an interesting fact about this region.

The visual cortex is the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for processing visual information.

The auditory cortex in the cerebral cortex processes auditory information and as part of the sensory system for hearing, performs both basic and higher hearing functions.

Wernicke's area is an area in the cerebral cortex related to speech and is involved in both spoken and written language. This area was named after Carl Wernicke, a German neurologist who discovered that the area is related to how words and syllables are pronounced.

Broca's area is an area in the frontal lobe of the brain that is related to the production of speech. The area is named after Pierre Paul Broca who noticed an impaired ability to produce speech in two patients who had sustained injury to the region.

7.   Which part of your brain is responsible for thinking the following: “Is it hot in here or is it just me?” partical lobe

8.   What does your visual cortex do for you? The visual cortex is the part of the cerebral cortex that responsible for processing visual information.

9.   State three interesting or significant facts about your occipital lobe.

1.     If our occipital lobe was impaired, or injured we would not be able to correctly process visual signals, thus visual confusion would result.

2.     The occipital lobe is the smallest of the lobes

3.     its located on the back on the brain

10.                 What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged? When damage occurs to these areas of the brain, patients may experience disturbance of auditory sensation and perception, an inability to pay attention to what they see or hear, impaired ability to comprehend language, impaired factual and long term memory, emotional disturbance, and altered sexual behaviors. They may also have seizures, lose their sense of humor, and become obsessive.

11.                 What is your “fast brain” and what does it do?

Your fast brain is how fast your brain can respond and process information.

Neuron

12.                 State 3 things that you could do that would influence your synapses, and have a positive affect on your life and health.

a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.

13.                 What is the relationship between multi-sensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites?

is the study of how information from the different sensory modalities, such as sight, sound, touch, smell, self-motion and taste, may be integrated by the nervous system

14.                 How does “big picture thinking” and mnemonics affect dendrites and/or learning?

Because it makes you think harder which strengths the other parts of your brain.

15.                 Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very

important.  Justify your reasoning.

DOPAMINE is our main focus neurotransmitter.  When dopamine is either elevated or low – we can have focus issues such as not remembering where we put our keys, forgetting what a paragraph said when we just finished reading it or simply daydreaming and not being able to stay on task.  Dopamine is also responsible for our drive or desire to get things done – or motivation.  Stimulants such as medications for ADD/ADHD and caffeine cause dopamine to be pushed into the synapse so that focus is improved.  Unfortunately, stimulating dopamine consistently can cause a depletion of dopamine over time.

Limbic System

16.                 What does the corpus callosum do? is the part of the mind that allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. It is responsible for transmitting neural messages between both the right and left hemispheres.

17.                 What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum?  In 1995, a study led by neurologist and neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug found that professional musicians who started playing before the age of 7 have an unusually thick corpus callosum, the bundle of axons that serves as an information superhighway between the left and right sides of the brain. He also saw this as evidence that musical training can bolster neural connections, but skeptics pointed to the possibility that the musicians had bigger corpora callosa to begin with. Perhaps their neural wiring had enhanced their musical pursuits instead of the other way around.

18.                 Why is the thalamus important The thalams plays the role in regulating states of sleep and wakefulness

Relate and Review

Summarize what you learned from this tutorial.  Relate what you learned to your everyday life and how you can make it better.  Use at least 5 of the bolded words from the questions.  5-sentence minimum. You may use the back of this if needed.

1.   The brain is made up of different parts that control different functions that your body carries out. For instance your occipital lobe, the smallest of the lobes, located on the back of your brain is responsible for seeing visuiasl. The thalamus is very important because that helps us stay awake and sleep at night, it helps determine what time a day it is. the corpus callosum is also very important because it is what allows the two hemispheres to connect./communicate with one another, because they aren’t really connected. We have many neurotransmitters that travel through our body some of them include Gaba, dopamine, serotonin, empinephrine, ect… Finally the most important part of our brain is probably the frontal lobes because that lobe controls important cognitive skills in humans,

The Brain Dissection

cerebrum- the main and most anterior portion of the brain in vertebrates, it is  located in the front region of the skull and consisting of two hemispheres, left and right, which is separated by a tissue. It is responsible for the integration of complex sensory and neural functions and the initiation and coordination of voluntary activity in the body.

cerebellum- the part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.

brain steam- the central trunk of the mammalian brain, consisting of the medulla oblongata, pons, and midbrain, and continuing downward to form the spinal cord.

The Function of myelin in a neuron is to increase the speed in which many impulses travel along the myelinated fiber.  

Thalamus-controls the motor systems of the brain which are responsible for voluntary bodily movement and coordination, as well as helping with smell 

optic nerve- helps transfer visual information from the retina to the vision centers of the brain via electrical impulses

medulla oblongata-  the continuation of the spinal cord within the skull, forming the lowest part of the brainstem and containing control centers for the heart and lungs.

pons- It is a bridge between various parts of the nervous system, including the cerebellum and cerebrum, which are both parts of the brain.

midbrain- is a portion of the central nervous system associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation.

corpus callosum- is to integrate motor, sensory, and cognitive performances between the cerebral cortex on one side of the brain to the same region on the other side.

hypothalamus- to link the nervous system to the endocrine system via the pituitary gland

In this dissection we dissected a sheep brain. The brain looked similar to a human brain except it was a lot smaller. It had almost all the same parts as a human brain and each part that was similar to the human brain functions the same way. We learned that gray matter is darker in color is gray/tan color where white matter is lighter in color and looks more ivory. White matter gets its color from the presence of high numbers of myelinated nerve fibers, where gray matter is darker because it consists of more cell bodies with unmyelinated fibers.It was a little challenging to located the different areas of the brain however with a little help and refresher we soon learned them better.

Drunk Tank Pink

Written by; Adam Alter

Drunk Tank Pink written by Adam Alter, a professor, describes the hidden forces inside a person that influences their way of thinking, seeing things, feel thinks, and act towards things, Throughout this book Alter describes a lot of experiments that many scientists have conducted and have done thru research on. Alter talks about how we perceive names, look at symbols, the way we interpret labels and so much more. Its all about the individual, everybody will look, see, and act towards this things very differently.

Lets start of with the name of this book Drunk Tank Pink. It’s a weird name for a book, however the meaning of the title may surprise you, Drunk Tank Pink is a certain shade of Pink, its on the hotter shades of pink.  Drunk Take Pink got its name from Alexander Schauss, a professor, who conducted an experiment in 1970 at which men stared at this shade of pink to see if it would weaken their strength. Sure enough it did, Professional sports teams starting painting their visitors locker room this color hoping to weaken that teams strength. But it got its name “Drunk Tank Pink” when police stations started painting their holding cells for the drunks that came in for an overnight stay.

In this reading Adam focuses on what drives a person to interpret and make assumptions about everything. We judge people and things by what we hear however we shouldn’t be doing that because everybody is very different, we all take things every differently and no one will look at the same thing the exact same way. That is what makes us our unique self. Alter really looks at the way we judge names we always start to assume things when we hear a name before we meet that person. Alter also talks about the way we label things and the way we perceive certain symbols that have been around forever.

This reading relates to our class because we have been study the physiology of the way things work. And because we are doing the nervous system that deals with the brain and how our brain processes what we have learned. Our brain has different lobes which each stores what we learn and the way we learn it. It sends out signals and our brain helps us understand what we hear. This book is all about the psychology of ones brains and how they most likely process what they have just been given.

If I could ask the author two questions about this reading I would want to ask him; What part of our brain makes us do these things such as seeing symbols, putting labels on things, and basing things off a person names? Not everything you mentioned was based off a study or experiments that have proven to show these things so is this book somewhat based on what you believe people do and why we do it? Because some of the things that you mentioned seemed a little crazy and was sometimes hard to follow.

I think a lot of this reading is true. I know that because I can relate to it. When they we talking about us assuming the worst or best about peoples names and putting labels on them, the way we see certain labels as being good or bad, why we put labels on things, the way we see the meaning of symbols I do that all the time. Sometimes Adam would be taking about something that would be hard to understand or it would interpret the flow of the topic he was on, however this was a confusing book. It took a while to read because it wasn’t you ordinary book, you had to actually think out what he was saying for it to make since.

I think that this book is theoretical because everybody does the things that he talked about. I think it benefits society because I learned so much on it. One thing I could relate to was with the names. Alter was saying that when we hear a name we starting putting an age, race, religion, gender, personal characteristic, wealth on them. And sometimes we don’t even know that we are doing it.  

“These forces take many forms, arising from three different worlds; the mental world made up of small cues that burrow their way into our heads; the social world that connects us; and the wider physical world that surrounds us. Each of us is an ongoing product of the world within us, the world between us, and world around us- and their hidden capacity to shape our every thought, feeling and behavior” (4). This is trying to tell us that there are three worlds to our brain that control the mental, social and physical emotions of our body and the behavior that we present. But in each side of those worlds we have hidden parts that can effect of behavior we portray.

“Both physical and social pain seem less painful when we’re cushioned by symbolic reminders of money, even when the money isn’t real or doesn’t belong to us”. This quote described that when you have pain or experiencing pain (ex. After some one dies) and people give you money. That money makes you feel better knowing that someone is giving you something to try to make you happier. You received a happy gift to try to make you feel better. Or that sometimes you are bummed by something and the ways that will make you feel better is spending money, especially when you have unlimited money,

 
 

 

Physiology of the Sheep Eye

• LENS- transparent, works with the cornea to helps refract light to be focused on the retina.

• BLIND SPOT- a place in your vision where you cannot see some objects 

• RETINA- the light-sensitive tissue lining the back of our eye. Light rays are focused onto the retina through our cornea, pupil and lens. 

• PUPIL-a hole located in the centre of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina

• IRIS- thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.

• SCLERA- the white outer layer of the eyeball. At the front of thnuous with the cornea at the front of the eye

• OPTIC NERVE- each of the second pair of cranial nerves, transmitting impulses to the brain from the retina at the back of the eye.

• AQUEOUS HUMOR-transparent, watery fluid that comes out when you cut the eye 

• CHOROID- the pigmented vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera.

• VITREOUS HUMOR- is the clear gel that fills the space between the lens and the retina of the eyeball 

• CORNEA- the transparent layer forming the fro

• CILIARY BODY-  is a part of the eye that includes the ciliary muscle, which controls the shape of the lens- 

• EYE LID- each of the upper and lower folds of skin that cover the eye when closed. protects the eye from getting damaged/scratched by any little particles such as dust

• TAPETUM LUCIDUM- what allows animals to see in the dark.