Inside the Teenage Brain

In the documentary there was a tennager named charlie. While I watched this I wondered why he threw a fit when his mom and dad tried getting him up for school. I think it was interesting that the scientist said that "Once a child becomes a teenager, for a brief period of time it's as thought they become invaded by another body. The scientist said that this was the most tumultuous time of brain developement since comic out of the womb. Another scientist did a sleep test on a teenage girl to watch her sleep activity. She stated that teenagers amount of sleep has been shoved into an ever narrowing window. While charlie's parents were waiting for him to get up his mom made him a full breakfast. I noticed that as Charlie was eating the meal (bacon, eggs, and toast) he complains and says that the bacon was a little to burnt. I don't understand why he feels he needs to be so rude to his mom even though she made him a nice big meal. As I was watching the documentary I noticed that the mom says that he is almost like a totally different kid outside of the house. She also talked about how he was well liked outside the class because his friends don't get the same attitude that his parents do. When everyone is sitting down and getting interviewed he said that his parents have forgotten how to be a kid and that he wants them to let him make his own mistakes. The scientist talks about how the parents just need to realize that this is just another stage of childhood developement and it was the same tempertantrum but in a 5 ft. body instead of a 18 in. body.

Wild child

In the Wild Child documentary about genie and victor, they showed how malnourished they both were and how undeveloped their brains were. I thought this was intereting because you really don't know if she was mentally unstable from birth. In their studies they showed that during her sleep cycle she showed symptoms that she could have been mentally challenged before being malnourished. I wonder if she was provided with the right nourishment when they found her would she gradually overcome the most nightmareish cases of it all? While watching this documentary I also wondered why the parents did that to her in the first place? In the video a reporter talked about how both the parents were older and how the father was very controlling. The mother said that she was going blind and she too was controlled by the father. He thought geni was mentally retarded from birth and just did not want to deal with her. At first when they found her she was not able to express herself or speak clearly. She was not able to walk that well and throughout her life she has not acquired human traits, that by thirteen any adolent would have, because she was so malnourished. In france a boy named victor, was found and delt with the same life challenges genie faced. Ironically enough a movie was produced and the movie premired 1 week after genie's discovery. They scientists and doctors that bleork with both victor and genie said that once puberty had taken place they would not be able to learn how to speak if they had not ever learned before. While genie was at the hospital one of her doctors had become sort of her derived parent. He was there in the morning while she ate breakfast and there at night to tuck her into bed and give her a goodnight kiss. Everyone loved herald she would get so excited by the silliest things, balloons were one of the things that made her laugh, like a real heart felt laugh.

                           
Genie "The Wild Child"


                   
Victor "The Wild Child"

Research Article 2

I think this was a good article because it was sort of interesting to see that something that was made to be somewhat indestructible, could be broken. I do not understand why they put this information out to the public because it could be used in a murder case or just a regualr trial where they are using this method to figure out whether the defendent was guilty or not. What does moving those certain fingers and one toe do to make the test unrelyable? Why did the people who can up with this way of cheating around the test use those three body parts? What do they connect to, that reduces the activity in the front-most part of the brain to show whether they are lying or telling the truth. What is it that calms you down by doing those three movements with those three body parts?

Research article 1

I think that the study shows that even though people agknologe the warnings, they do ignore them. They ignore them because they feel it is uneccesarry and untrue. One question that I do have is why do they still have the warnings lables if no one pays any attention to them? I have seen movies and read lables that I have disreguarded because I did not want to think about how the world could come to an end. I much rather read an artical about global warming that had positive potential technological solutions. I would listen and pay more attention to potential solutions about global warming than warnings about negative outcomes in the near future. When I read about how the polar bears are losing their homes it just drives me even further away from the subject then before. Even while watching a movie that I know is not real and can not actually happen, it still scares me that all of that negativity will occur on earth in the future to come.