Ellen Huff

This video is basically about easy/simple ways to hypnotize people. There are a lot of ways and some can be used in normal conversation a It reminds me of the kinds of things derren brown does with distracting people with one thing while you do another. You should try them :)
(The video above is the really quick ways and the video below has different less simple ones)

Polyphasic Sleep - Mike Shearer

Polyphasic sleep is a sleep schedule in which one takes several short naps throughout the day, without getting sleep in a block schedule. The purpose of this is to condition the subject's body to enter REM earlier in the sleep process. REM deprivation can lead to serious consequences, but once your body is conditioned to enter REM quicker, you can get more time out of your day seeing as you only end up sleeping about 4 -6 hours a day. Success stories cited having more vivid dreams, lucid dreams, a higher state of awareness, and more energy. Experiments have been conducted and results sway both ways. One experiment, conducted by NASA, found that longer naps were better. The Canadian Marine Pilots and the Italian Air Force conducted experiments and found that shorter naps tend to relieve sleep deprivation and reduced the total time of sleep needed each day.

This video is a polyphasic sleep experiment conducted on an artist. His brain waves are recorded 24/7, and they appear normal. He adapts reasonably quickly to the sleep schedule, and he falls into REM very quickly. He is given a sleep bonus, in which he sleeps 10 hours for just 1 day, and his performance exceeds his pre-experiment stats.

Justin Nicholls- Sleepwalking Dog

This is an interesting video of a lady who in fact is the owner of this dog is tape recording her dog named Bizkit while the dog is asleep. She realizes that Bizkit does some odd things while being asleep so she tape records Bizkit. Bizkit starts out peacefully asleep then just starts kicking his legs viciously and then just gets up on all fours very awkwardly and just starts barking at the wall. This is very odd as I have never seen such an event like this with a dog before. Very funny video!

Chris Yun - Lucid Dreaming

The following is a video clip of a Discovery Channel production containing information about the brain, sleep, and dreaming. The focus of this blog post is lucid dreaming (awareness that a dream is a dream while it is happening), which is mentioned near the end of the video clip.



In the complex world of our dreams, anything is possible. The idea of harnessing the power of controlling our dreams has long been thought of, and many different methods have been developed. It's been said that it's possible to condition oneself to allow lucid dreaming to occur more frequently. For fun, here's one of the many video tutorials on how to have lucid dreams.



This specific tutorial contains some of the information Mr. Douds taught us in class (keeping a dream journal nearby and telling yourself you are going to have a lucid dream). Now, get to sleep and explore the endless possibilities!

talking monkey (!)?(!) Conrad Berkompas

This video is not all that amazing. The monkey has simply learned to say one word through a process of operant conditioning. Why is it that monkeys cannot talk, though?

A web search revealed that the larynx of a monkey is much less developed than that of a human. This prevents them from forming the same sounds that humans form when speaking.

obviously monkeys are capable of intelligence. This monkey is much better at memorizing numbers than I am. Does this mean that they only thing holding monkeys back from world domination is their misshapen larynx? In several hundred years (assuming the world is NOT ending in 2012) monkeys could get the correct shaped larynx through evolution and will start communicating. Then they will start the slow path to control over humans.

Maybe some day a monkey will feed me a piece of licorice to do simple problems.

How is this linked to psychology, you ask. well, it has to do with language, which is part of this chapter. Also, it raises an interesting point. How much of human success relies on language? The only reason we are able to progress is the spreading, developing, and communicating of ideas. If our larynx was slightly misshapen, then we would probably be eating licorice and saying "mama," because so much of our knowledge is passed down through a long line of people.

Maybe humans aren't so badass after all. The only thing that places us ahead of monkeys, retrospectively, is our larynx(ii?).

Jimmy Corish

This video is an interview of Noam Chomsky discussing some of his ideas about the English language such as "universal grammar". He also discusses how language has changed with the advent of technological innovations such as email, cellphones(texting), etc.

Annie Gauf

This video is similar to the activity we did in class trying to memorize a list of words. It provides a technique of elaborative rehearsal which helps improve memory. It is much like mnemonics or associating someone's name with something funny, and is proven to be more effective than just maintenance rehearsal. Try it!!

This is another video about Derren Brown (the same guy who can go up to people and steal their phones, wallets, etc.). He goes to a library and tells the librarian to pick any word in the dictionary, by just knowing the position on the page Brown can recite the word. He continues on proving his ability by reciting a line of a random book the librarian selects. Brown claims he has a photographic memory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFGG6zWByhM
(youtube doesn't allow this video to be embedded)

TARA SENFI:)

"A small docuclip of a man with the "most severe case of amnesia." With only a memory of his wife and his musical abilities, he essentially has no place in time."
Clive Wearing is a British musicologist, conductor, and keyboardist suffering from an acute and long lasting case of anterograde amnesia. Specifically, this means he lacks the ability to form new memories. On March 29, 1985, Wearing, then an acknowledged expert in early music at the height of his career with BBC Radio 3, contracted a virus which normally causes only cold sores, but in Wearing's case attacked the brain (Herpes simplex encephalitis). Since this point, he has been unable to store new memories. He has also been unable to control emotions and associate memories well.

Amazing Memory Test: Alex Kim

This videos is about a guy that tests his fellow co-workers on memory.He turns on a television that displays several words, and he instructs them to write down as many words that they can remember. Before he begins the experiment, he explains that the first three words would most likely be remembered due to the primacy effect and the last three words would be remembered due to the recency effect. He also claims that the majority in the group will regurgitate words over and over which is known as maintenance rehearsal. It is the most common method of memorization. Eventually, they begin the experiment and they quickly find out that many of them, wrote down words that was not on the original list. This phenomenon occurs because memory is sometimes misleading and acts as a lousy videotape.