developmental stages

Today is Thursday and thank goodness tomorrow is Friday because I could not stick through another 90 minutes of powerpoints with Mr. Dreier. We're learning about Kohlberg's stages of moral development, and it's sort of interesting. As you can see from the visual, there are six stages of moral development according to Kohlberg. I was assigned to study stage 1, which is the youngest stage. Kids in this stage typically are blind to consequences of their decision and base their decisions solely on obedience and punishment. They do whatever they believe won't get them in trouble. So if that means lying to your parents so that they don't find out about something bad, then you must lie. The last stage is stage 6 and that is where high school kids should probably be. This stage is basically the most mature and balanced. Kids will weigh their options and read into the decision making a lot more than people who are in stage one of moral development. Stage 6'ers will reverse the situation. Basically they can see it from more than just their point of view, so they will assess the situation from the opposing person and maybe a higher figure such as a parent. That's about all. "outskies for now!!!"

brain disorders

This post was due last week, but I'm posting it now with high hopes that I will get credit from Mr. Dreier so let's hope he's in a good mood at this moment. I only got to see the brain disorders that were presented on Thursday but a certain brain disorder caught my attention which was savant syndrome. Ironically enough, I met a savant on Friday when I was visiting Oshkosh. The guy was quite old and he was a professor at the university. He wasn't as special as the class examples we heard about, but his memory was by and far above average. One of the guys that I was with asked the professor if he remembered the day that they met, and the professor rattled off the exact date. He wasn't special enough to remember the weather or anything like that, but it was still pretty spectacular to witness something like that where the man could just remember the exact day off the top of his head. This disorder intrigued me so I set out to find more information on it. After looking it up online for a bit, I read many peoples opinions and some people think that almost everybody is born with the abilities of a person with savant syndrome. I think that there's some truth to that because everybody probably has the ability to find that inner ability of the savant syndrome, we just don't spend our time trying to accomplish it. That's all I got. "outskies for now!!!"

left brain right brain

There are quite big differences between the left brain and the right brain. During the class testing I scored a 5.29 which set me as a right brained person. Dreier predicted that I would be a left brained person, but he was wrong of course. Being right brained means you obtain characteristics of being creative, artistic, intuitive, random, and a risk taker. I found through information that I found on the internet that most school's teaching approaches tend to favor left brained people, so it is harder for right brained people to succeed in school. Left brained people are more logical, mathematical, rational, subjective, and orderly. Left brainers can look more into one part of a situation, whereas the right brained people tend to look at the big picture of the situation.