Psych. Blog # 10

In chapter nine I learned that once somebody has a strong belief that they are right it is hard to get them to believe otherwise. Even when they are given evidence that suggests they are wrong they still believe that their belief is right and the statistics are wrong. Even when statistics support their belief and the opposite of it people still will not consider that both sides are somewhat in the wrong. I have beliefs that I need more proof than a bunch of people tell what happened over a centuries ago. So I'm stubborn in my beliefs just as much as anyone else. This belief that we are right on the subject can also lead to overconfidence, because we believe we know something and are dead set that it's right that we become over confident and when we are proven wrong we don't know why.

The book defines creativity as the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas. Yes I do think I'm creative. I can come up with the weirdest things, ecspecially when I'm with my friends. Exihibit A the bat squrriel, enough said. Every day you need to be creative. To write research papers or to do other assignments you need to be creative to complete them. If you have a high creative intelligence you can come up with ideas to use at work depending on your career. Even if you want to go into business you have to come up with creative ideas to attract customers.

Before chapter ten I thought there is only one type of genius and that the person had to good at math and science. I then found out that there is more like eight areas were people can be considered a genius. One amazing thing is those that are mental challenged when it comes a majority of things can listen to a whole entire syphony and then play it back on a piano, even though they only listened to it once. I wish I could do that, it would take me forever to do that. Another example is that of the twins that can give you the years that easter was in March within a 8,000 year span (or something like that). One can tell the populations of all the cities in the United States over 5,000 people, or the exact distance from a town to it's capital. Yet he only has a vocabulary of 50 words. That is impressive, I'd love to see (or hear) anyone I know do that.

Another thing I learned was the teen from California who lost his eyes to cancer. He use echo-location to get around. He does this by making a clicking noise that bounces from objects back to his ears. The most intriging thing was the story when he was three that him and his mom were driving in a city. From the back seat he asked his mom if she saw the tall building. His mom was like I can see it but how can you (since he had his eyes removed when he was one or two years old). The sound of the cars around him sound different on the side with the tall building than the side with only cars.