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steven bloom

Video games help focus on fine detail - 1 views

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  • Video games help focus on fine detail From: The Australian February 13, 2007 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these? PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university. "After just 30 hours, players showed a substantial increase in the spatial resolution of their vision, meaning they could see figures like those on an eye chart more clearly, even when other symbols crowded in."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      Why highlight this?
  • PLAYING video games that involve high levels of visual action on a daily basis can improve your ability to see fine detail, a study shows. Researchers at the University of Rochester in the US have found that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month sharpened their ability to identify letters by about 20 per cent. "Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information," says Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the university.
  • These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it," she says. "That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life."
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      An interesting article.
  • steven bloom on 06 Oct 10
     
    This website talks about how video games help looking at the fine detail. It states that playing action video games such as halo or call of duty refine your ability to see fine detail. This characteristic is important for doctors or architects. This website is credible becuase it took it's information from the university of Rochester in the United States study.
Catherine Delisle

Peer Pressure and Teens - 1 views

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    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 06 Oct 10
       
      This page could really help Dunya and I in our research because it really helps us see the other side of peer pressure. It explains that their is two different sides of presure: a negative and positive one. Also, it talks about factors that can influence our project.
  • It is important to remember that teenage friends can have a positive influence on your children, you should therefore help them find friends that have similar interests and views as those you are trying to develop in your children, including doing well in school, having respect for others and avoiding drug use, smoking and drinking, etc.
  • How successfully you handle peer pressure depends a great deal on how you feel about yourself and your place in the world. There are certain "risk factors" for peer pressure, personality traits that make you more prone to give in to peer pressure.
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 07 Oct 10
       
      This point is really important because it explains how peer pressure can influence different people. If you have a higher confidence, you won't be as influenced by peer pressure than if you have very low self confidence.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      While I appreciate that you are learning about your topic reading this, I don't think this site helpful for the project because it's credibility is questionable. Be ready to defend it.
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  • Peer Pressure is two types; such as positive and negative peer pressure.
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 07 Oct 10
       
      This point is also really important because it helps my partner and I to see that there are two different types of pressures: some are negative and some are positive. They can influence someone in two drastically different ways.
  • Gender and age are factors
  • Younger teens are more easily influenced than older teens, with peer pressure peaking in about eighth or ninth grade
  • confidence level, personality and degree of maturity make a difference.
  • The need for acceptance, approval, and belonging is vital during the teen years.
Leigh Gantman

Greed - 0 views

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  •    It is common experience that those who have most want most. This must be because they don't really have what they have: it doesn't fulfil them, it only baits them into further accumulation. Greed is a bottomless pit and nothing will ever fill it. Many misers even live very poor lives - in order to die rich! A tycoon stipulated in his will that he should be buried in his limousine, seated at the wheel, with a Havana cigar in his mouth. It was done. As the crane was lowering the limousine into the grave, one of the bystanders said to his friend, “Man! Some people really know how to live!”
  • Leigh Gantman on 05 Oct 10
     
    This is a really strong point and one that is very useful to my project. "Those who have most want most." This can be interpreted as people who have more money generally want to have more things. However, this is because they are never satisfied with what they possess. For my experiment, this could be very helpful in proving my hypothesis correct because the population I will be studying is the shoppers at an expensive store. As this passage suggests, people with more money accumulate as much as possible for themselves only. If that is the case, then I will be able to conclude that my hypothesis is accurate because the majority of the shoppers at the store will not donate to the cause. They will only be considerate of the things that they want and not take into account that their small acts that can easily help another.
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    I've already shared my reservations about this site with you.
Jonn Nudell

Does Music Help You Study? - 1 views

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  • Music can be of assistance when you study however it needs to be a relaxing music as you don't want to create distractions for the brain
  • Your favourite rock band where you sing along to all the lyrics for example is not a good choice.
  • You can also use music to break up your study time. It's great for example to study for 40 minutes with music then 30 minutes without, each time you make a shift it will seem like a fresh study period and can actually help you study more effectively for longer.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 31 Oct 10
       
      Same comment as above. Oct 31
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  • The mind benefits from short periods of intensive study followed by breaks. During the breaks it's thought that the mind processes what's been learnt. When you return to study again for the second time it has a compound effect.
Jonn Nudell

Can Listening to Music Help Us Work Better? - 1 views

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music while studying doing homework effect

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  • We know that music can alter your mood
  • . Films have been using musical scores for years to create the right mood for a scene. At times you hardly notice the music at all but you are very receptive to the mood being conveyed. So can we use music to put us in a "productive" mood?
  • Research seems to support such a claim. For example, a trial where 75 out of 256 workers at a large retail company were issued with personal stereos to wear at work for four weeks showed a 10% increase in productivity for the headphone wearers. Other similar research conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois found a 6.3% increase when compared with the no music control group.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 31 Oct 10
       
      same comment as the other two Oct 31
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  • f your goal is to increase your concentration then music which has a constant, easy beat and light melodies are recommended.
  • they help you pace your reading to aid focus and memorising. Baroque music is reported as an excellent example, especially the works of Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.
  • the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered that a person's ability to recognize visual images, including letters and numbers, is faster when either rock or classical music is playing in the background
  • If you are aiming to be more productive through being more relaxed, then you may be interested to learn that research has shown that music with an upbeat rhythm can reduce stress hormone levels by as much as 41%.
  • Apparently cows will produce more milk if Mozart is played.
Leigh Gantman

Altruism - 0 views

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shared by Leigh Gantman on 17 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Altruistic behavior is something we might assume takes place every day. A person stops to help an elderly member of society across a street, an adult donates his/her time at a local charity, or someone else might even put himself or herself in harm’s way for the immediate benefit of another without really thinking about the consequences. However, it’s not clear what this sort of altruistic behavior actually comprises, or whether genuine altruism really exists. Today’s episode digs into these questions about altruism from two main standpoints. The first is from Biology, which considers how our conception of right and wrong may have been wired into us through evolution. The second considers altruism from the psychological standpoint. This view grants much more importance to the role of an individual’s psychology and his/her intentions when committing an action, which potentially leaves more possibility for genuinely altruistic acts to occur. 
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Oct 10
       
      This site is the work of two philosophy professors so it is reputable; but make sure to listen to the rest of the podcast before concluding something that you might misunderstand because you've taken it out of context.
  • Leigh Gantman on 17 Oct 10
     
    This is extremely important for my project because it tries to explain why people act generously, and if their acts are genuine or not. It explains that throughout evolution, humans have been biologically programmed to grasp the concept of right and wrong. Therefore, it would be human nature telling them to do an act of consideration for another. However, it also explains that sometimes a genuine act of altruism can come from the individuals psychology, in which case their intention would be different. When the act comes from a psychological position, chances are more likely that the person sincerely wanted to commit it. I can incorporate this into my project by including questions in the survey such as: If you give to a charity, what is your purpose? Options for this will include answers like: It is the right thing to do or I really want to help someone else in need. This will show me how many people really have it in their hearts to be altruistic, and how many do it because they know it is what they should be doing.
olivia amiel

Teens ignoring real world issues - thestar.com - 2 views

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    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      This article is related to my project because it talks about how teenagers are not aware of their surroundings, instead they are more focused on facebook, MSN. It also shows an example of how teachers could help teens become more aware by doing simple things in school. As my topic is about apathy and teens being unaware, this article helps a lot.
  • The benefits of being socially aware are endless. Everything from becoming an informed voter to donating to a needy cause is influenced by one's consciousness of current affairs
    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      By being socially aware, teenagers can have so many more benefits compared to if they are not aware of their surroundings. Being aware can help us in the future and now by, as they say in the article, becoming an informed voter for example.
  • Joseph Miceli, a high school religion teacher, says that discussing current events within the standard school curriculum is "a very practical and effective way of making learning more interesting and real." Although many teachers do an excellent job of making current events relevant in the classroom, Miceli questions whether or not it is consistently used within all subject areas.
    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      Although teachers are very good at their job, Joseph Miceli wonders if teachers are teaching us enough about current events going on around us. If certain teachers would start to put more emphasis on this subject, teenagers would maybe begin to learn a bit more about their surroundings.
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  • Although today's youth are more media savvy than ever before, there seems to be a missing link within the information chain. From soldiers' deaths in the Middle East to fundraising events in their own community, today's teenagers are often uninformed about current events and world news.
    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      This statement here represents perfectly our topic. It is a fact, teenagers are often uninformed about current events and world news and it is'nt necessarily a good thing. They now have more "important" priorities in their life such as facebook, texting , being with their friends etc... that they don't take the time to see what is happening around the world. Basic knowledge, and some teenagers don't even know stuff about their own country.
  • "Students would rather spend hours on social-networking sites like Facebook and chatting on instant messengers like MSN than searching Google for important world issues," says Clarke.
    • olivia amiel
      olivia amiel on 21 Oct 10
       
      Technology plays a huge role in today's generation... and I believe that it could be the cause as to why teenagers are not as aware of their surroundings now. They are more occupied in the latest web invention instead of simply taking 10 minutes of their time to Google stuff about world issues.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
       
      While this is interesting, a newspaper report quoting one teenager is not the most credible source. It's ok if your other sites are excellent.
Catherine Delisle

Who Shaped Our Behavior? Peers or Parents? - 2 views

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  • According to Harris, children are most influenced by their peers.  They adopt many behaviors of their peers in social settings in order to be accepted by their peers.
  • She goes on to say that children's interaction with their peers permanently modifies their inborn psychological characteristics
  • They adopt many behaviors of their peers in social settings in order to be accepted by
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  • The fact is that we decide who we would let influence, inspire, or corrupt us.
  • Peers influence our behavior but parents play a part in which peers we choose to associate with.  Our behavior in public and at work is largely determined by our childhood peers but our family behavior is determined by the early lessons we received at home. 
  • Parents influence at-home behavior and peers influence behavior outside the home, that is, the behavior in the social setting.  We learn how to make friends and influence others by first experimenting with our peers and then we transfer these skills to the adult world of coworkers and friends.  But, how we behave as partners and parents is more likely to be shaped by what we observe in our families as children.  
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 07 Oct 10
       
      This section could help us because it explains how teenagers change their behaviours when at home compared to with their social groups. People will always be different with their friends than with their families.
  • It is true that children adopt or mimic certain behaviors in social settings in order to win acceptance of their peers.  How desperate children get for peer acceptance and approval depends on the sense of individuality (or lack of it) their families cultivate in them.  Children whose parents encourage them to think independently learn to question rather than to blindly follow.  Such children might be less influenced by their peers.
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 07 Oct 10
       
      This could help me and my partner for our project because we understand that teenagers try to immitate people to become socially accepted by them. We also understand that teenagers are desperate for this acceptance and have parents who teach them to question important decisions have more independance that those who are 'followers'.
    • Catherine Delisle
      Catherine Delisle on 30 Sep 10
       
      This web page could really help me and my partner on our search to find the correlation between different environments that teens are in and the behaviour they adapt for that specific environment. This text explains a lot about the mentality that teens have and their influences.
  • Catherine Delisle on 30 Sep 10
     
    Psychology of teenage behaviour: Who influences our behaviour and how does it change from social cliques to our homes
  • Daryl Bambic on 24 Oct 10
     
    Also not the best site for you.
Jonn Nudell

Does music help you concentrate on homework? | Answerbag - 2 views

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classical music studying doing homework instrumental

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  • Classical music has been widely touted as favorable to intelligence. According to Sylvan Learning centers, studies indicate that soft, classical musical aids in concentration, and, according to Scholastic, studies also indicate that classical music stimulates the section of the brain used in math.
  • Instrumental music playing lightly in the background can help prevent outside distractions, making it easier to focus on homework.
  • Loud music with words can often be more distracting than beneficial if you are trying to study.
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  • However, you may be able to tune out the lyrics of a song, get into the rhythm of the music and study more effectively while songs you like are playing.
  • While classical music has proven in studies to be good for the thought process, even it can be distracting for some people. Trial and error is the only way to know how distracting music will be for you.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 31 Oct 10
       
      Sites such as this one are not the most credible. Look for a .edu extension. See me for help here. Oct 31
revisesociology

Revision Techniques for A-Level Sociology Exam - 0 views

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  • revisesociology on 05 Apr 22
     
    Revise Sociology is a leading website that helps prepare for the sociology exam. The website helps prepare for the exam and is dedicated to preparing the best curriculum for the examination. In addition, we help in consolidating understanding in AS and Level Sociology. Feel free to subscribe to the website for the exam!
revisesociology

How Sociology Notes Help To Do Structured Study of Sociology - 0 views

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  • revisesociology on 05 Apr 22
     
    Are you searching for the best platform to do sociology studies? Then, you can end your search with us. Our website is known for the best sociology study materials that are easy to understand and easy to prepare for exams. We focus on students' basic needs and make them simple for students.
revisesociology

A Level Sociology Theory - 0 views

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A Level Sociology Theory

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  • revisesociology on 18 Apr 22
     
    Revise Sociology has a wide range of resources available to help you prepare for your exams. From us, you will find the A level sociology theory to prepare the exam. Our unbeatable revision resources are designed to help learners stay on top of course topics, boost knowledge and practise. The website offer many helpful tips and revising strategies to use when you are assigned to write a paper.
guitarryan88

The Sixties . War & Peace | PBS - 0 views

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  • guitarryan88 on 29 Sep 15
     
    C: There is no date to the article but the website looks new and it is by PBS R: This article helps me understand how many millions of men went to Vietnam and where drafted A: I can not find who wrote the article but it is from PBS which is well known for precise information. It is a .org A: The information about the Vietnam war is accurate from what I know from my personal knowledge. It is un bias it shows both sides. P:The purpose is to inform us about the Vietnam war
kimselinsky

Statistics | Crisis Centre - 0 views

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  • kimselinsky on 21 Sep 15
     
    C: Its been updated with 2014 stats R: its help with learning about how much people go through A it gives sources A its all right Pto inform
igalperets

Pablo Escobar: A Hero or a Villain? - 0 views

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  • igalperets on 20 Sep 15
     
    "He operated under a policy called "plato o plomo" which literally signified take the money or take the bullet.  He bribed judes, policemen, juries, and innumberable government officials with money to help him out, and he took the lives of the ones that refused to cooperate with or go against him."
nickenepekides

Drugs and Gangs Fast Facts - 0 views

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  • nickenepekides on 21 Sep 15
     
    C: July 1 2009 R: It does help answer some of my questions and thoughts. A: It is a government site(US) so no author is named however since it is a government site it can be trusted and has strong credentials. A: The statements are very true and not false, with no spelling errors. P: The purpose is to inform
sammie3611

Transgender FAQ | GLAAD - 0 views

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  • sammie3611 on 22 Sep 15
     
    Currency: Was updated in 2015. Relevance: It doesn't answer my question but I am thinking of changing my questions and speaking more about gender identity and this article would help with that. Authority: There is no author but the website is GLAAD which is an advocate website for LGBTQ+ community. Accuracy: No statements known to be false and the website looks modern and there are no adds. Purpose: Purpose is to raise awareness about gender and sexuality, also they say they want donations...
msigal

Teen Suicide Link 2 (Matt Sigal) - 0 views

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  • msigal on 21 Sep 15
     
    Currency: - January 2015, fairly recent. - Topic doesn't change very rapidly. Relevance: - It takes about a lot of factors, it answers many questions on the topic. Such as what you should do if you know somebody that is about to do it. - Mentions how to get help. - I was unaware that carbon monoxide poisoning is one of the main ways for a teen to end their life. Accuracy: - No known false statements. - No grammar errors. Authority: - The author is Roy Benaroch, MD. - He has written 2 published books, completed Emory University. - He was certified in pediatrics in 1997. Purpose: - To inform.
sorayadergham

Homelessness: Portail Santé Montréal - 0 views

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  • sorayadergham on 22 Sep 15
     
    C:"Last update : 2015-02-13" R: gives information the homeless of Montreal A: sate montreal is a governement website A: The information does not contain any false statements P: to inform and to help
Mason Brenhouse

Effects of Music on the Mind and Brain - 0 views

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  • Music plays a vital role in enhancing creativity. Music has a positive impact on the right side of the brain. Music triggers the brain center, which deal with the development of creativity. Certain ragas are known to activate all the chakras of the listener’s body, thus benefiting him/her in the performance of other creative tasks. Music is found to give students the capacity to trust themselves. It provides them with an internal discipline. Rhythm is known to help the students learn math. Music stimulates the brain centers that deal with thinking, analyzing and planning, thus enhancing one’s organizational skills.
    • Mason Brenhouse
      Mason Brenhouse on 30 Sep 10
       
      This specific part speaks about music's vital role of enhancing creativity as well as music's ability to help students develop skills in math and trust themselves without hesitation. 
  • Mason Brenhouse on 30 Sep 10
     
    This article answers questions such as: What are the effects of music on the brain? What are the effects of music on the mind? and How does music effect your mood?Very useful for my project by indicating certain ideas and theories on how music affects us mentally. 
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