The Argument Essay Challenge

 Quick Write:

 In my opinion I believe that teenagers should be treated as young adults , I also believe that some teenagers are mature enough, some may even have children of their own , we are still developing as a teen (young adult). Although we may have a harder time to make rational decisions no excuse is an excuse.

I'll like to give thanks to all those who view my blog , those who take the time out to leave comments and to Ms.Becker for making blogging fun for all the amazing ideas quick writes and topics every day.

My I-Search Project

Final Reflection:
As a scholar in completing this project. I learned that there were plenty of informational things that I didn't already know previous to my I search , I learned that one question can go a long way and how not to be afraid to ask because there's plenty people in this world that may have the same questions. As I explored my topic for research the most difficult thing i had to do as interview my best friend , going into the interview I didn't know how she would feel about the questions I had for her. But being able to have her open up to me was one of the most memorable things I've done in this project. As of right now I feel like I've achieved a lot while doing this project , I learned so many things and if I can I'll do it all over again.


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Quick Write:
Some people may not fully agree with the idea of metal detectors in school but, tragically there have been too many school shootings to count in recent years. I believe that society give children these crazy ideas because of what is allowed in schools, to be allowed in schools without medal detectors or school  ID's is absolutely absurd and unsafe.

  Daniel R. Weinberger states that the brain of a 15 year old is not mature. Particularly in an area called the prefrontal cortex, which is critical to good judgement and suppression of impulse. He continues to say the shooter at Santana High , like other adolescents, needed people or institutions to prevent him from being in a potentially deadly situation where his immature brain was left to its own devices. No matter what, if a gun is put in the control of the prefrontal cortex of a hurt and vengeful 15 year old, and is pointed at a human target, it will very likely go off. His claim was that teenagers are to young to know any better or to think before doing , I however disagree with his claim I do believe that it may be harder for an adolescent to control their impulses then it is for adults but for a adolescent to cause a shooting in a shoot would have to be thought out or planned.
 

Quick Write:

Honestly I work pretty hard to control my impulses , there are plenty of times when lashing out comes to to mind but its easier to control my impulses rather then wishing i wouldve never done something that i would regret later on, there nothing worst i hate then regrets so i do try hard to control my impulses.


1.)What is Beatriz Luna's major claim?

As more work is completed, it is becoming apparent that society should not be fooled into thinking that  teen has the mental process of an adult. 

 2.)What important studies and facts support her claim?

Teens use more of their prefrontal cortex resources than adults.

3.)What is Robert Epstein's counterclaim?

There is no teen brain that is universally different from adult brains.

4.)What important studies and facts does he use to support his counterclaim?

Observation that studies that implicate a teen brain tend to look only at American adolescents. He' says research shows that "teens in other countries and developing nations don't behave or feel like American teens.

5.)How does Luna dismiss/refute Epstein's counterclaim?

She says her experiments control for cultural differences because they look at the brain function based on emotionally neutral stimuli, not socially relevant behavioral decisions.She also points out that the structure of teen brain is "not ready" and that this is good thing, because it allows the brain to develop more consistently with the particular environment in which it matures.

Im with Epstein I do believe that some brains are more mature then others but "there's no such thing as an adult brain" . 

 I believe that I'am very much endogenous , as I was younger and got into a lot of trouble as a kid for making bad decisions without thinking I grew up to learn how to control my impulses , my reflexes and reactions i often think before I do make less mistakes as I become an adult.

Quick Write:
 Well I believe that Ms.Becker sees so much potential in me we've also spoOne of the brain regions that changes most dramatically during adolescencee before and i think she actually believes in me, believes in my idea's, my effort and believes that I need more confidence in my work that i should give myself that extra push to believe in myself as well.

1.)How does Ms. Blakemore define adolescence?
-Starts at puberty

2.)How long does it last?
- Ends in the early 30's

3.)What is the significance of the prefrontal cortex?
-One of the brain regions that changes most dramatically during adolescence.

4.)Which section is this on the diagram we viewed yesterday?
-Executive Processes

5.)What is synaptic pruning and what is the significance of the process?
-Synaptic pruning is the elimination of unwanted synapses. You prune away the weaker branches so that the remaining, important branches, can grow stronger, and this process, which effectively fine-tunes brain tissue according to the species-specific environment, is happening in prefrontal cortex and in other brain regions during the period of human adolescence.

6.)What is the social brain?
-How good we are at reading other people's behavior, their actions, their gestures, their facial expressions, in terms of their underlying emotions and mental states.

7.)Explain the design and results of the experiment in which adolescents were compared to adults in seeing things from another person's perspective.
-adolescents and adults use a different mental approach, a different cognitive strategy, to make social decisions, and one way of looking at that is to do behavioral studies whereby we bring people into the lab and we give them some kind of behavioral task, the adolescents did pretty well with the first task but when they were asked to put the same task into the others person perspective adults were able to do it much better the adolescents.

8.)Describe the difference between the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex in teenagers and adults.
-The limbic system is right deep inside the brain, and it's involved in things like emotion processing and reward processing. It gives you the rewarding feeling out of doing fun things, including taking risks. It gives you the kick out of taking risks, The prefrontal cortex is the front part of your brain witch thinks before taking risks.
 
9.)Do you see your own adolescence as a problem or an opportunity?Explain.
- I Don't see my own adolescence as a problem, i often try to understand people's reasoning as to just arguing or debating about something im very understanding.

10.)Make one suggestion you have for educators based on this Ted Talk.
-The environment, including teaching, can and does shape the developing adolescent brain.

Quick Write:

I Do not agree that teenagers should have the same rights as adults because teenagers do have some growing up to do teenagers can be as mature as adults but it wouldnt be as wise to give teenagers the same rights as adults. 

What makes teenagers different from adults and babies? 

  -As babies we are very curious we often grow into teens that take risk and try things out prepare ourselves to becoming adults who have mostly experience it all.  

How is decision-making connected to the various parts of the brain?

  -We often take risk as teens and even adults before taking a risk we think about if we should do it or not something in our brains tell us whether we should do it or not.

How should society differentiate between teenagers and adults from a legal, social, and individual perspective?

  - I believe that from a legal standpoint teenagers should be treated as adults we are old enough to know right from wrong i dont believe that if a teenagers commits a murder they shouldnt be treated any different from an adult, as for social most teenagers are engaged in sex and crazy television , etc we shouldnt be treated any different after all we are becoming adults and are still humans so whether we do it now or later it'll still happen, as far as individual perspective i believe that teenagers should have the same respect as adults in order to grow up and actually become an mature adult we should have some type of respect as an teenager.   

 How do we evaluate our own brain development at this point in our lives?

 - As we grow we learn more about our selves, our brains, the way we think and how we grow 

Teen Brain Basics

The teenage brain is complex , scientist are looking at the brain to see how and why they make the decisions they make. Teenagers choices are all about exploring and pushing limits , there comes a time when you go out and explore the world on your own , test things out a bit , every spices have an necessary stage before adult hood. Researchers uses the (MRI) to test the theory  that teenage brains are different from the adult brain. There are two processes going on in your brain one process involves the fibers that connects nerves cells , the other process is the strengthening of the synapses the docks between the nerve cells. Babies have an abundance of connections, but during the teenage years, many of these connections are pruned (eliminated) to make the brain processes more efficient. This is why its easier for young people to learn languages , but it also explians why sometimes its hard for them to make logical decisions.

LOST:

  I wouldn't say I'm a "Risk Taker" how ever I have taken risk in the pass. When I was younger my mom never allowed me to leave the front of the building. It was a summer day and all of my friends were going bike riding in "dead man hill" my mom wasn't around so I figured I'd take my chances and tag along besides I've always wanted to go bike riding in "Dead Man's Hill" that's where all the cool kids went. So we road our bikes up towards the hill and everyone took turns riding down.The hill was so steep and narrow so I was kind of afraid but it was my turn to go and I didn't want to chicken out so I road down the hill and everything was fine until I came across the biggest bump in the road and tumbled all the way down face first. My whole face was destroyed almost unrecognizable there was blood everywhere. Ambulance had came and called my mother. I was more afraid of how she was to react if she knew I went bike riding without permission then the gigantic scar that was left on my face she came and burst into tears when she seen me after it all I've learned a valuable lesson and that was to always listen to my mom because she knows best.

Gray Matters

The Mokens are a seafaring people who spend a great deal of their time in boats off the coast of Myanmar and Thailand. They live off the sea and get their food from diving deep underwater where there is little light. They have developed unusual underwater vision--twice as good as Europeans. This has enabled Mokens to gather shellfish at great depths without the aid of scuba gear. Without masks or scuba gear, they trained their brains and eyes to gather tiny shellfish and other food on the ocean floor at depths as low as 75 feet (23 meters). According to an online article in National Geographic News, deep water makes it difficult for the human eye to see. "But the Moken are able to accommodate, or muscularly change the shape of the eye's lens, in order to increase light refraction," the article says."It seems they have learned to control their accommodative response, such that they can voluntarily accommodate even in the blurry underwater environment." 

    

Dr. Dennis Charney, has studied how the brain responds to dramatic changes in peoples' environments. He believes that the brain can order the body to adapt to suite its needs in any environment. In the Moken's case, they have obviously trained their brains to adapt their vision to accommodate the underwater darkness.  

Do Now:

 I actually don't believe the credibility of this blog I never heard of octopus being out of water.

Here's One Of The Sources That I'm Using:

"Down Syndrome." Genetics Home Reference. Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, 20 Oct. 2014. Web. 21 Oct. 2014. <http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/down-syndrome>.

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Here's my question for further research:
How can teens control their impulses ?

Final Reflection:
Just this year, I made a major decision without any outside influences. Growing up in my environment and with the friends that I've surrounded myself with, I always got distracted in school. Everywhere around me, there always was someone who gave up and let society take over their ambition. I've, however, decided to stay in school to achieve my high school diploma. No matter how many times I have felt like giving up or going down that road, I am here today and I am a strong-minded person for being around bad and not choosing to be that, for being pressured and not giving in, for being strong enough to not give up, and for being women enough to keep trying.

How does down syndrome occurs ?

I find this topic pretty important because I've always wondered how can someone just be born with Down syndrome. I'm sure that there's people out there that wonder the same things . I think this topic might be of interest to others because I believe everyone knows someone with Down syndrome . I'm researching this topic today because I personally know people with Down syndrome and I would like to be more aware of the causes of Down syndrome.

     Q. How Much Of Our Brains Do We Actually Use ?

A. Some may think that we use 10% of our brains , The 10% statement may have been started with a misquote of Albert Einstein or the misinterpretation of the work of Pierre Flourens in the 1800s. It may have been William James who wrote in 1908: "We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources" Perhaps it was the work of Karl Lashley in the 1920s and 1930s that started it. Lashley removed large areas of the cerebral cortex in rats and found that these animals could still relearn specific tasks. We now know that destruction of even small areas of the human brain can have devastating effects on behavior. That is one reason why neurosurgeons must carefully map the brain before removing brain tissue during operations for epilepsy or brain tumors: they want to make sure that essential areas of the brain are not damaged. Witch is actually a MYTH witch was stated in CLICK HERE

     What is the relationship between our brains and our minds?

Studies have stated and I don't mean to say that brains or minds are simple; brains are immensely complex machines-and so are what they do. I merely mean to say that the nature of their relationship is simple. Whenever we speak about a mind, we're referring to the processes that move our brains from state to state. Naturally, we cannot expect to find any compact description to cover every detail of all the processes in a human brain, because that would involve the details of the architectures of perhaps a hundred different sorts of computers, interconnected by thousands of specialized bundles of connections. It is an immensely complex matter of engineering. Nevertheless, when the mind is regarded, in principle, in terms of what the brain may do, many questions that are usually considered to be philosophical can now be recognized as merely psychological-because the long-sought connections between mind and brain do not involve two separate worlds, but merely relate two points of view.

                  
                                                   ALL ABOUT ME !

Hey everyone its Ina again its a new school year and this would officially be my first post. I'll like to take this time to introduce myself for those who don't know me as of yet. I was born in the South Bronx raised by my beautiful, strong, loving mother and step dad i have 6 siblings I love having fun traveling and being around my loved ones . During this semester i would love to explore so much about the brain , I'm interested in knowing how it works , how it thinks , how it sleeps, how it loves . I pretty much know that the brain controls how humans think and react but I kind of sometimes wonder how is it able to control our thoughts , movements , and decisions . But most importantly I'll like to know how do we maximize the percent of brain that we use ?

You agreed with 0 fixed mindset statements and 8 growth mindset statements .

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I believe everyone loves to win , I'm just one who hates to lose i hate to feel as if i failed at something whether its in sports , in school work or in anything i just always seem to shut down but in fact failing makes me better.

1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't change very much. (Disagree)

2. You can learn new things, but you can't really change how intelligent you are. (Disagree)

3. No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit. (Agree)

4. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are. (Agree)

1. You are a certain kind of person, and there is not much that can be done to really change that. (Agree)
2. No matter what kind of person you are, you can always change substantially. (Agree)

3. You can do things differently, but the important parts of who you are can't really be changed. (Agree)

4. You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are. (Agree)

What is grit ? 

Grit is passion , its courage , or motivation.

I believe i have grit i actually think it was gained throughout the years i every time i failed at something it motivated me to do better next time I'm at a point where failure isn't an option but I am brave enough to accept failure because i know i will try again and be better the next time around , good encouragement's makes me develop my grit I'm still to this day trying to develop more grit.