Christina Leas: Intrinsic Motivation

Here is an interesting take on the theories behind motivation. We just learned about instinctive, biological, cognitive, psychoanalytical... but what about spiritual? These "Laws of Motivation" come from the philosophy of Kabbalah, a branch of Judaism. However, it reminds me a lot of the 5 Noble truths from Buddhism that we learned in world history.

This view seems to imply that all extrinsic motivation will ultimately leave us dissatisfied and that the only thing that will keep us truly happy is fulfilling intrinsic motivation. It then claims that the purest form of intrinsic motivation is to help others. So go and be nice to someone today!

Solitary - Victor Le-Vu

This is the trailer to last season's "Solitary 3.0." This show puts 9 individuals in pods where they stay 24/7 until the competition is over. In these pods, their sleep, eating and resting cycles are controlled by a computer and they have no sense of what time it is or how much time has passed. The only communication they have is with a computerized voice through a machine named "Val." This is the only voice that the people hear during their stay in Solitary. The competition is over when the competitor is the first to give up on a challenge or when they press the red button to give up. The challenges test the people mentally and are usually crazy or frustrated tasks.

This is related to psychology because you can see who people really are when taken away from their comfort zone. After a while in solitary and being there alone for an extended periods of time, people have mental breakdowns where they just cannot take the feeling of being there anymore, even when there is nothing happening in the pod. Season 4 premiered a couple of days ago on the Fox Reality Channel. TUNE IN

Ben Kim Interventions for Individuals with Mental Retardation

Although children with mental retardation may have ongoing medical needs, the primary focus of intervention is to assist them in developing to their highest potential. This program focuses on aspects of these interventions, including the multidisciplinary team, teaching strategies to increase learning, and the development of the Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Also discussed are the specific challenges in education related to auditory learning and methods to reinforce learning as it occurs. The program also looks at the roles of the counselor, the special education teacher as well as mainstreaming. Behavior modification, as a way to assist the child in working effectively within the classroom and the family, is explored as well. Finally, the program describes the various levels of achievement possible for adults with mental retardation, including joining the workforce and living independently or within a group home.

Varun Gupta - MENSA

Alice Roberts, a two year old genuis, has become the youngest person in Britain to join MENSA, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. The society accepts members who score above the 98th percentile of special standardized intelligence test. The parents of this girl say that she has an IQ of 156. The parents said that they also need help from the society so that her daughter can take full advantage of her intelligence.

Alex Rubis

This is just a simple "IQ test." Draw 9 dots on a piece of paper as shown in the video. You must connect all dots using 4 straight lines without lifting up your pencil. The video goes on to say that because the dots are set up in a square, they set up perceptual boundaries that are fixed in the mind. It also says that in order to solve this problem, you must drop such boundaries and look outside of them. This ties in to our unit on intelligence, as it shows that not all "IQ tests" are valid ways to show intelligence. It also ties back to our unit on perception. This relates to the demonstations in class we did that required us to look outside of our perceptual boundaries to solve the problem, such as the O,T,T,F,F,S,S,E,N,T pattern.

....And if you can't figure it out, here is the solution:

Kathryn Hahne

This is a clip from the old show on Nickelodean, Kenan & Kel. In this episode, Kenan & Kel sign up to take an IQ test together. Kenan stays up all night studying for his test because he is worried about failing it. They both take the test and once Kenan finishes, he draws a funny picture of the Principal, calling her Principal Dimwit. The two get their scores back and Kel got a score of 96/100 and Kenan got a score of 3/100. Kel starts wearing a shirt saying "I'm a Genius" while Kenan beigins to act dumber than he actually is. In this specific clip from the episode, the two go to talk to the principal about their scores because Kenan thinks that his was scored incorrectly. When the picture of Principal Dimly goes missing, Kel uses his "genius" and ends up creating chaos.

Though this is mostly just a fun clip, we can see the effects that the results of the IQ test have on the two boys. Kenan, who is very smart, becomes discouraged by his score and acts dumber than he actually is and Kel on the other hand becomes almost cocky about his IQ because it proves that even though he does stupid things, he is still intelligent.

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