Psych. Blog 6#

From interviewing my step-grandmother I learned that times have really changed. We now have more things that we have and want. Which is a good thing because they can help with homework or communication, but also a bad thing for it makes us spoiled. One thing I wish still holds true now to as it did then is how they hang out with friends. They went to movies or to restaurants sure, but they also went for walks or bike rides more often. They were always outside. You don't see that much anymore with all the video games and television shows. I could see myself living back then. I would spend more time with friends and wouldn't have to worry about gangs or drugs. That wasn't around in her day, it makes life seem so much more simpler.

With the parenting adolescence I learned that it's highly normal for teens to become distant from their parents. My mother always made it seem like I was dissing her in some way by not talking to her as much any more. It's also good to know that it's normal to argue with your parents. I was told to never talk back to your parents. If I did it made me seem like the worst child ever, yet my siblings do it all the time now that they became teens. There's not that big of an age difference either, so I really don't get that. Do parents use different parenting styles on different siblings?

One thing I learned in chapter four that in an abusive type of relationship that women are just as likely to throw things or hit their partners as much as men. I'm not going to lie, some of my family and others I know were in abusive relationships. 95% of the time it was the guy being abusive. I know this because I witnessed some of the events, so this information actually surprises me.

Dealing with chapter five, and the videos that go along with it, I learned that babies are legally blind. Due to the cones in the back of the cornea babies are legally blind. Their eye sight is really bad that it takes a month just to see the outline of a face up close, and two months to actually start to take in facial features. Colors don't even develop until at least three months. It's unbelievable the amount of time it takes to see and learn. There was an example in one of the videos where there was this two year-old and this little replica of the room next door. There was a miniture Snoopy and toy Snoopy, and where ever the miniture Snoopy was placed in the replica room the bigger Snoopy was place in the same spot in the actual room. The lady giving the test kept reminding that big Snoopy was in the same spot as minature Snoopy. It took the two year-old looked three times for the Snoopy before she found it. The test was then done on a three year-old. The three year-old found it right away. Thats a whole year difference in age. What they got from this is that every young children think more than we do. I would have never thought that.