Blog Post # 6

I learned a lot by doing the interview. I was able to contrast the different times and how times are different for me and my friends then our grandparents. I helped interview a friend's grandparent and learned a lot about what they did when they were teens. I also talked with my dad and I shocked at how much of a difference things were with him as a teen compared with me as a teen then compared to my friend's grandfather. There was only a difference of 20 years with my dad and 60 years with my friends grandfather. A lot has changed between those times. I can hardly imagine a life with out electricity or little electronics. It's something we live with all the time and we are so use to it, that when we talk with someone form a different generation theres a large difference.

I think the video was very true considering that we all go through our stages of life at different times and I believe that adolescence is a hard time in the life of children. So many things happen and change that are amazing, but can cause problems. There are many good things about becoming an adolescent and there are bad things. Things like puberty, but then it's over and it's better. Our minds are always working and learning new things that it we are always changing. I think my adolescenes was okay. Being 17 is a good age because you are able to drive and you have lots of freedom, but at the same time you have responsibilites that keep you in line. I have had to go through a lot thoughout my life and I think it has and will definitely affect the type of adult I am going to be. I have made a lot of mistakes and have been able to learn from them. I have also learned a lto from my friends and my family about things to do and not to do. I think the life experiences really affect the type of adult a person becomes because of all the changes it makes you go through. You learn so much more and with increased knowledge it helps you become a better adult in the future.

One thing I learned from chapter 4 was a lot about genetics and how we are influenced by all things. I found it very interesting on how many things influence us and push us towards doing something. Most of what I learned dealt with Nature and Nurture. How twins can be fraternal or identical. I found it interesting that identical twins that are seperated still have some to the same habits and how fraternal twins have completely different genetics. I learned a lot about nurture and how much we blame who we are on our parents because of their genetic code was passed down. It talked a lot about gender differences and how they change who we are and how we are treated.

In chapter 5 I learned a lot about how we develop. I found it very interesting how many stages we go through. I found it interesting that when we are little we know a lot because our minds have some things programmed in and we learn how to do them by observing and reanacting them. I thought I was fascinating that a baby is born legally blind because their retina is that strong yet. The videos on parenting and adolescents helped a lot by talking about how our minds develop as we grow older. I found the expirements they did with children at different ranging ages was very cool because they were able to do the same experiment with children at different ages and get different results according to age. It was fascinating that they could decide what a child would choice in and expirement mainly because of the age range they are at because they were able to predict the mental development.