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Jonn Nudell

Does Music Help You Study? - 1 views

  • 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
       
      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.
Frankie Ferreira

Music Enhances Academic Excellence - 1 views

  • Musicians achieve a higher grade point average (GPA) than non-musicians in the same school do. Music students achieve higher ACT scores and other college entrance exam scores. In a recent study, 66% of music majors who apply to medical school are accepted, the highest percentage of any group. Only 44% of biochemistry majors are admitted. Findings indicate that music study uniquely enhances higher brain functions required for reading, mathematics, chess, science and engineering.
  • Music training enhances reading skills.  A study done with 1st grade children shows significantly higher reading scores with children receiving piano/music instruction than did the control group. (Hurwitz, I., Wolff, P.H., Bortnick, B.D. & Kokas, K. 1975) Music training dramatically enhances children’s abstract reasoning skills necessary for math and science.  A study with 3 and 4 year-olds indicated that children who received piano/keyboard training performed 34% higher on tests measuring spatial-temporal ability than the non-musical group. These findings indicate that music uniquely enhances higher brain functions required for mathematics, chess, science and engineering. (Psychologist Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and physicist Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California at Irvine in 1994)
  • Music training increases intelligence.  Scores on a puzzle task, designed to measure spatial reasoning ability, increased significantly during the period they (three and four-year-olds) received the music lessons. In a research report, ‘Music Increases Intelligence Report,’ Dr Shaw said the piano was the instrument of choice because its keyboard gave the children both a linear and audible representation of the relationship between sounds. "What this means for parents is that they should consider giving their children piano lessons as early as age three or four," said Shaw. (College of Computing, Georgia Tech, August 24, 1994. UCI Journal, Spring 1997) Music enhances learning and creativity.  In another research test involving four and five-year olds, the effects of music on learning and creativity was measured. After twenty days of training, the music/dance group showed the greatest improvement in learning about body parts and creativity. (Mohanty, B. & Hejmadi, A. (1992). Effects Of Intervention Training on Some Cognitive Abilities of Preschool Children. Psychological Studies, 37, 31-37.)
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  • Music training enhances a brain function that dies away.  Studies show that early experiences of childhood determine which brain cells (neurons) will connect with other brain cells, and which ones will die away. Because neural connections are responsible for all types of intelligence, a child’s brain develops to its full potential only with exposure to the necessary music enriching experiences in early childhood. (Music Beats Computers at Enhancing Early Childhood Development, American Music Conference via PR NEWSWIRE: Neurological Research, February 1997)
  • Music achieves non-musical positive effects.  It has been shown that children develop faster socially, mentally, and even physically when exposed to music in their early childhood. "Thus, it appears that music studied for good and sufficient reasons for its own sake has beneficial ‘side effects’ on cognition." (Rausher, F.H.,Shaw G.I., Levine, L.J., Ky, K.N. & Wright, E.I. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Los Angeles, CA., August 13, 1994.)
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    This article states a bunch of facts that they say are true, about how music really enhances academic excellence. It is than furthermore proven by showing multiple studies done in various years, all clearly proving how our academic success is greatly influenced by music.
steven bloom

Video games help focus on fine detail - 1 views

  • 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
       
      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
       
      An interesting article.
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    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.
Jonn Nudell

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

  • 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
       
      Sites such as this one are not the most credible. Look for a .edu extension. See me for help here. Oct 31
revisesociology

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

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revisesociology

Know About The Different Kinds of Sociology Studies - 0 views

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    Revises Sociology provides learners with the opportunity to develop an understanding of our changing society and opportunities. In addition, our sociology study gives you a strong foundation for further study of a range of academic subjects at the degree level.
Daryl Bambic

BrainJogging » New studies find video games to be detrimental to children's s... - 2 views

  • Boys who received a game system at the beginning of the study showed an immediate increase in how much time they spent playing video games and a decrease in the after-school academic activities.  They also had significantly lower reading and writing scores than the group of boys that were promised a game system at the end of the study.  Parents reported no behavioral changes, but there was an immediate increase in teacher-reported learning problems for boys that received a game system at the beginning of the study (Science Daily).
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This is a common argument for the negative position.  Be aware that there are educators who use gaming as a teaching tool and believe that it can be positive.  
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This site is an example of how a web page can have a blog section.  The purpose of this site is to sell a product but the author (a special ed teacher) also has much experience and a point of view on an important topic.  If there is a place to leave a comment, then you may consider this as a blog.
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    This is a good link for Steven and Malik
Patrick Reid

The Best Sounds for Getting Work Done - 1 views

  • The Workplace Doctors site details both sides of the question. In one study, University of Illinois researchers found that listening to music in "all types of work" increased work output 6.3% over a control group. In another study (dissected at MetaFilter), 56 employees working on basic computer tasks were found to be more productive when there was no music playing over the same period tested with music.
  • The most often cited study into the question of music's effect on the mind involves the so-called Mozart effect, which suggests that listening to certain kinds of music—Amadeus Wolfgang's classical works, in particular—impacts and boosts one's spatial-temporal reasoning, or the ability to think out long-term, more abstract solutions to logical problems that arise.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      This is a blogger (that I know and follow). It's really interesting but it's still a blog. Where is your sticky note comment?
Frankie Ferreira

Music's Contribution to Academic Success - 1 views

  • Researchers in Hamilton, Ohio, documented that students participating in a string pullout program scored higher on the reading, mathematics and citizenship portions of the Ohio Proficiency Test (OPT), than their non-music peers.
  • This study paired string and non-music students based on their verbal Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT). Four groups of string students were released two times a week for instruction. Two of those four groups scored significantly higher on the reading and mathematics portion of the OPT than their non-music peers. Additionally, 68% of string students scored at grade level or higher on all four sections of the test compared to 58% of the non-music students. For more information (Michael D. Wallick, Ohio City Schools)
  • SAT scores of students who took part in music instruction surpassed students with no music training. Data collected from students taking the SAT, indicated that students taking music and arts averaged scores that were higher than non music students by 60 points on the verbal section and 43 points on the math section.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Much better. Revised Oct 31.
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    This is a website about children in school learning to play music. They want to show us how being knowledgable in music affects our school grades. They use recent studies to prove that this is true. Musical prowess equals academic prowess.
Leigh Gantman

Why are people generous? Why aren't they? - 0 views

  • Why? Well, altruism, they note, is a component of human social behavior.  But it carries a personal cost. You give that last piece of pie to someone else and that means it doesn’t go to you. Human beings, therefore, might be tuned to constantly gauge how they’re morally measuring up, and not lay on the niceness any thicker than it needs to be.
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    Now that I have altered my study, this passage could be of great use to me. It brings up a very good point: altruism is component of social behavior. This paragraph is trying to explain why people are generous and why people are sometimes selfish. It refers back to human nature and the way people behave. Although this passage is sourced from a blog, the author is mentioning credible information. When one does a selfless act, they are often doing something that is not to their benefit, but to the benefit of another. In some occasions, this means sacrificing.
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    Remember that a newspaper is not the same as a study or a university supported site. They are in the business of selling news and not researching.
Danielle Waid

PreventDisease.com - Team Sports Increase Kids Social Skills - 1 views

    • Danielle Waid
       
      This webpage is useful for my project because it helps explain the ways in which involving yourself in sports can affect your self-esteem. It gives examples of studies that have been done with their conclusions on the relation between sports and self-esteem.
  • The study does beg one age-old question: Which came first? Do kids think better of themselves because they're involved in sports, or do they get involved in sports because they already have higher self-esteem? "It's difficult to swoop into a one-time study and then determine whether the kids have better self-esteem to begin with," says McHale.
    • Danielle Waid
       
      I think this is a very good question to keep in mind when working on my project because I think there could be some bias in our results if kids are involved in sports because they already have higher self-esteem.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Very good observation.
steven bloom

Video Games, And Academic Performance: Some Good News - 1 views

  • And while the researchers found a strong relationship between video games and lower grade point averages, playing video games did not appear to affect math skills and had a positive relationship with visual-spatial skills. These skills – in which a child learns visually, by thinking in pictures and images – are considered the “training wheels” for performance in science, technology, engineering and math.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      A better site!
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    In this aritcle they did a study where they took 20 middle schools and monitored the children playing video games. They found that when students played video games there grade point average did increase. Although playing video games helped their visual spatial skills
revisesociology

AQA A Level Sociology - 0 views

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sydney goldman

Are Women More Generous Than Men | Women and Philanthropy: A Literature Review | Center... - 0 views

  • Are Women More Generous Than Men?
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      this publication talks about empathic response based on gender and giving to charity. it includes many dates and names concerning experiment previously done that can prove or deny information that is stated. she states that the amount of money that is to be given is a big factor as well, quote: "men are more generous when it is cheap, but women are more generous when it is more expensive to give." In the end she states that it goes way further than just gender, quote: "single females, married men, and married women are significantly more likely to be donors than single men."
  • In the economics literature, Andreoni and Vesterlund (2001) seminal study demonstrated that the question of “Who is more generous?” is complicated. Their study differences in the “demand curves for altruism” where men are more responsive to the price of giving (pg. 1). They conclude that men are more generous when it is cheap to give, but women are more generous when it is more expensive to give.
jonah-e

Chapter 08 - Deviance and Crime - 0 views

  • xactly who has the power and authority to define the behavior as being normal or deviant.
  • education
  • religions,
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  • governments,
  • media
  • family
  • Durkheim argued that deviance, especially extreme forms are functional in that they challenge and offend the established norms in the larger collective conscience.
  • deviance reaffirms norms when the deviants are punished;
  • promotes solidarit
  • clear contrasting point of comparison
  • stimulates social change.
  • Extreme deviance does make us consider “normal” behavior on the personal and larger social level.
  • But, what if this distribution was not an indicat8ion of test scores, but rather the frequency of times potential roommates stole food from the private stashes of previous roommates? You’d clearly want a score closer to 0 than 80.
  • National studies indicate that less than 5 percent of the United States population considers itself to be exclusively homosexual.
  • s homosexuality deviant or normal?”
  • “Does that make it more or less common and therefore more or less deviant?” I ask.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Think about the relationship of these two ideas: common (so mean) and normal (so deviant).
  • actor violates group norms but complies with the law, it is deviance.
  • how can something be deviant and normal at the same time?”
  • We rarely have total agreement on what’s normal
  • ethnocentrism tends to burn cross-cultural bridges
  • across time; across cultures, and from group to group.
  • shifting values.
  • Deviance varies between cultures because values vary between cultures.
  • ontributed to higher or lower levels of trust over time.
  • The point of this story is that in most social groups a beat down would be considered deviant. In a gang it’s very much normal. Yet, in this situation, not beating him down was deviant within his gang, yet a wise choice.
  • Absolutist Perspective claims that deviance resides in the very nature of an act and is wrong at all times and in all places.
  • Normative Perspective claims that deviance is only a violation of a specific group's or society's rules at a specific point in time
  • Reactive Perspective claims that behavior does not become deviant unless it is disapproved of by those in authority (laws
  • Stigma
  • deviance is a violation of a norm
  • Conformity
  • “random act of senseless kindness”
  • legal and normal
  • complies with group norms yet breaks the law, it’s called crime.
  • normal crime.
  • As mentioned, deviants and criminals make us reassess our values and make new rules and laws
  • crime is often found in every society
  • iolates norms and breaks the law, then it’s Deviant and Criminal behavior
  • Power Elite are the political, corporate, and military leaders of a society are uniquely positioned to commit Elite Crimes, or crimes of insider nature that typically are difficult to punish and have broad social consequences upon the masses.
  • issues of power and powerlessness. It’s about who has the power and how they attempt to force their values and rules upon those who don’t have it.
  • remember that Anomie is a state of social normlessness which occurs when our lives or society has vague norms)
  • disproportionately high level of non-whites who ended up among the 2006 1,570,861 incarcerated members of society
  • Labeling Theory claims
  • majority of US prisoners have been in prison before (perhaps 60-80%
  • Phrenology is an outdated scientific approach of studying the shape and characteristics of the skull.
  • White-Collar Crimes are crimes committed by persons of respectable and high social status committed in the course of their occupations.
  • Street Crimes are crimes
  • Organized Crime
  • Hate Crimes
  • Norm is a set of expected behaviors for a given role and social status.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Do you agree with this definition?  Can you see what the consequences of this might be?
    • jonah-e
       
      yes. and the consequences might be that since you always excpect the excpected you will never excpect the unexcpected. 
  • Look at the diagram below.
  • Is a mean of 80 good or desirable?
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Think of 80, or the mean, as the norm.  When you think of it this way, is it desirable?
  • That depends on what these scores represent.
  • Values also vary between groups
  • An absolutists would probably fall among the 1 in 4 who feel that abortion is always wrong, because it is an unacceptable act. A normative individual would consider the circumstances (rape, incest, diagnoses, or health of mother) while a reactive would consider the legality of abortion.
  • In every society when deviance is considered it is most often controlled.
  • Control is easier if attachments, commitment, involvement, and beliefs are stronger.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      The absence of this is called 'anomie' and signals the breakdown of a society. Sociologists would call this the loss of social cohesion.  
  • Attachments
  • Commitment
  • Involvement
  • Belief
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Think of these four factors that favor control of deviance in terms of your school.  How does each one of these manifest itself in school life?  Are they effective in reducing deviant behaviour?
  • Negative Sanctions are punishments or negative reactions toward deviance. Positive Sanctions are rewards for conforming behavior
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      What type of sanctions, both positive and negative, do we see at WIC?
  • Table 5. Robert Merton’s Five Goal—Means Gap Coping Strategies*** 1.
    • Daryl Bambic
       
      Don't worry about this section.
sorayadergham

http://www.csssvc.qc.ca/telechargement.php?id=432 - 0 views

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arturirgaliyev

How Technology Affects Global & Local Cultures - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com - 0 views

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    C: Info recent and site clean and well programmed  R: Site ties in two of my main themes (Culture and Technology)  A: Jason Nowaczyk is a social stidues teacher in the states A: Once again, clean site, no visible mistakes or errors and all information seems trustworthy and up to date  P: The site isnt free (but I have a free trial) but it is very reliable and known 
Mason Brenhouse

Rap Music's Psychological Effects: Research into Mood, Behavior, Crime, Violence and Ge... - 2 views

  • While a number of studies have associated lower grades with students who listen to rap or heavy metal music, one study found that white students actually improved their academic abilities after watching rap videos, as well as expressing more progressive attitudes—after watching politically focused rap videos, they were more inclined to support a liberal black political candidate. Unfortunately, there was no indication of similar research being conducted with black students.
    • Mason Brenhouse
       
      What truly caught my attention about this paragraph was that it was specifically related to the academic marks of those that are fond of rap music. It speaks of the effects on certain people after watching rap music videos. 
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    This article speaks about the psychological effects of rap music spanning from perception of crime and violence to attitudes toward women and even academic achievement. This will be very helpful in my project as it will add much needed information on the consequences of rap music. 
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