Review about 20 Time

Interview from" Last Month Tonight"

For my 20 time I made a video for our janitor thanking him for all of his help since he retired earlier this year. This video is here. Then after we finished that video, we began to work on another project called "Last Month Tonight" although we finished the script and got out interviews done, we never completed the video with Chris and I talking about issues from the bay.

Script for "Last Month Tonight"

Drone shot in Goodbye John Video

Interview from Goodbye John Video

After making thee projects, we then had to give a Ted Talk presentation for our projects which is here.

I thought our Ted Talk was good, but I felt like it was too short. Chris and I addressed everything we wanted to talk about, but we could of gone into more detail about some stories for the "Last Month Tonight Show," and why we didn't film. The grade we got, in my opinion, is the grade we deserved because Chris nor I cited any of our images and we missed 11 points because of that. To prepare for our speech, Chris and I each spent the day before practicing what we would talk about and why. I created notecards to help me through my parts of the slide while Chris memorized his parts. What i will take away from this experience is that this project really helped me grow as a person and as a student. It taught me that i need to be really organized to get stuff done and that i need to be on good communication with my partner. I also realized how fun something like this can be, but how much work needs to be put in. Im glass i got to make a video for John in which he cried happiness too. And I'm glad i created 1.75 of a show where i got to talk about local events and make it funny. Overall this project in my opinion was very fun and I won't let anything what i learned go to waste.

Reflex Lab Reflection

1. In this here lab, we tested our reflexes in different way such as throwing cotton balls at eachothers faces to see if we blink, and catching yard sticks in our hands to test reaction time and then even tickling the bottom of a foot to see if it cringes and curls up. Reflexes are rapid, predictable, and involuntary responses to stimuli.

2. The knee jerk reflex- a 2 neuron reflec arc (sensory neuron-->spinalcord-->motor neuron-->knee). When my partner hit me right below the knee, my leg kicked up. My leg kicked up because i was hit in a sensory neuron causing that to react.

Photopupillary reflex- This reflex is when the intensity of light entering the eyes increase, the photopupillary reflex is triggered and the cilliary body of the iris is stimulated to contract. As a result the pupil size decreases and less light enters the eye. When my partner shined the flashlight in my eye my partner said my pupil got smaller and when he took the flash light away it got bigger.

Blink Reflex- This reflex is the eye blinking and protecting the eye from light, dust, particles, and just to keep the eye not dry. When my partner threw a cotton ball at my face, my eyes blinked. I blinked because this is an example of a natural human reaction. When something is headed towards your face we blink to protect the eye.

Plantar Reflex- This reflex is when you drag something along the bottom of your foot and the foot tenses up curling the toes inward. I experienced this when my partner dragged the pen along my foot, and this happens because it stimulated a neuron and then made my toes curl up. How ever if there is nerve damage, then one might show Babinski's sign where the toes spread apart and upward.

How Fast are You Reflex- In this part of the lab, we tested our reaction times by catching a yard stick in between a 5 second interval and having to catch the stick as fast a we can. We then did this while texting to show us our slower our reflexes get. This activity proved that texting and driving slowers reflexes by a lot and is extremely dangerous to text and drive. This is the somatic reflex being used and it is the fight or flgith response. Without texting and driving my average response to catching a yard stick was 0.168 seconds. But while texting my average response was 0.25 seconds. As you can see here it increased almost .1 seconds which in driving is huge because in drivers education we learned that it is at least a 2 second buffer between you and the car and this is really the difference between life and death.  <--(Watch the video if you have time)

Brian Dissection Lab

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2. Anterior Side: The frontal section of the brain.
Posterior Side: The back of the brain closest to the back of the head. 
Cerebrum: The largest part of the human brain, associated with higher brain function such as thought and action. The cerebrum is divided into four sections, called "lobes": the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, and temporal lobe
Cerebellum: it contributes to coordination, precision, and accurate timing. It receives input from sensory systems of the spinal cord and from other parts of the brain, and integrates these inputs to fine-tune motor activity.
Brain Stem: controls the flow of messages between the brain and the rest of the body, and it also controls basic body functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, consciousness, and whether one is awake or sleepy. The brain stem consists of the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.


3. Function of the Myelin Neuron is it protects and insulates the fibers and increases the transmission of an impulse. 
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Hypothalamus: Maintains homeostasis for body temperature. 
Optic Nerve: Allows the brain to "see"
Corpus Callosum: Connects the right and left hemispheres 
Thalamus: Sorts data in the brain such as its ability to comprehend what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what it is touching and it also regulates sleep and wakefulness. 
Mid Brain: Is a part of the brian (in the middle part of the brain) that is associated  with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation.
Pons: The pons is located in the upper part of the brain stem and is associated with the control of breathing, communication between different parts of the brain, and  hearing, taste, and balance.
Medulla Oblongata: This part of the brain helps regulate a bunch of things such as breathing, heart function, digestion, and sneezing. This is where the brain controls respiration and circulation too. 

Brain Map

Brain Info

Cerebral Cortex

1.     What do the frontal lobes do? controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexual behavior.

2.     What is the relationship between selective attention and learning? Selective Attention makes your working capacity memory greater as it allows you to priotize important and used information rather than unimportant information. 

3.     What is the last part of your brain to develop and what can you do to prevent it from deteriorating? Your frontal lobe is the last part of the brain to develop and you can not zone out and not trying to memorize everything will help prevent it from deteriorating . 

4.     What does the neo cortex do? 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?  This part of your brain controls your personality such as social situations and your thoughts and actions. 

6.     What do we know about the pre frontal cortex’s relationship with multitasking? Multitasking is commonly shown to impair cognitive performance, as each switch results in a reduction in performance compared to doing one task at a time. However, there is growing evidence that the ability to multitask can be trained with repetitive and adaptive practice. Multitasking abilities have been observed to decline as we age. 

7.     Which part of the brain is associated with speech and language development?  Give an interesting fact about this region. Brocas Area is associated with speech and language development. Fun Fact is tongue twisters will help this part of the brain get better at speech 

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

9.     What does your visual cortex do for you?

10. State three interesting or significant facts about your occipital lobe. 1) This allows you to process short or long term memories. 2) Studies have shown that you engage your occipital lobes by using your imagination to visualize yourself performing that activity and it has shown that you will do better. 3) This part of the lobe collects and categorizes all the visual data you see. 

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11. What would happen if your temporal lobes were damaged? If your temporal lobes were damaged you would loose memory. 

12. What is your “fast brain” and what does it do? .... couldn't find the answer to this question, but I'm guessing it processes things quick in the brain and is used for quick thinking. 

Neuron

13. State 3 things that you could do that would influence your synapses, and have a positive affect on your life and health.  1) Socializing 2) Exercise and eating healthy 3) Eating Omega fatty acids such as salmon can help improve the synapses 

14. What is the relationship between multi-sensory or multi-modal learning and your dendrites? The Dendrites have a lifespan influenced on your daily activity. Their lifespan is influenced which is laid down by the activity. Multiple stimulations means you will have a better memory. Multi modal learning is a cross reference of data stored in your brain which may convert knowledge from something you have memorized to something you have learned. 

15. How does “big picture thinking” and mnemonics affect dendrites and/or learning? To fully understand a subject you must use big picture thinking, but while also breaking down the subject into smaller parts. Learning should be taught around problems such as where the learner is being put into context and you need to examine information from it. Rather than focusing on abstract facts, its about learning a technique that fits you whether its a story or humor or even a news article. 

16. Describe a neurotransmitter that you feel is very important.  Justify your reasoning. Glutamine plays a big role in how we learn as human beings. By having long term potential, it strengthens our synapses. Glutamine is also important for our brain because it helps us study, learning, and memorizing too. 

Limbic System

17. What does the corpus callosum do? The Corpus callosum is a thick band of nerve fibers and it connects the right and left hemisphere together. This is where you get your oral language skills and the ability to comprehend language. 

18. What is the relationship between music and the corpus callosum? By studying music, this will help strengthen the conversation between the two hemispheres of your brain

19. Why is the thalamus important? Your Thalamus is important because it is responsible for motor control, sensory information, and state of consciousness. It also deals with memory and emotions 

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.

    From this Brain Map, i have learned that the Brain uses is an extremely complex organ. To begin, he frontal lobes  controls important cognitive skills in humans, such as emotional expression, problem solving, memory, language, judgment, and sexual behavior. The neo cortex do is involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and in humans, language. Now for humans to be healthy we need to keep our synapses healthy meaning we must socialize, eat healthy and exercise, and eat salmon --> for the omega fatty acids. Then theres the "fast brain" and I'm guessing it is the part of the brain that quick thinks but i could be wrong since i couldn't find the answer to this question. And finally the most important part of the brain is the thalamus and that is responsible for motor control, sensory information, and state of consciousness. It also deals with memory and emotions.