Another long day chasing windmills...
Good morning! Slept in!!! We’ve been up for a while, but it’s already about 10:30. What a night! … Teasin, teasin … been a whole long time since we seen REAL beer around here! Sure had a good time with that anyway J We’ve not seen to much of V this morning or our buddy. Seems like everyone is off doing their Sunday morning thing, yet here we still set. We’ve done a few good Ann’s. Ate Chinese, did walking, took meds and shower, and got dressed.
We’ve done a teeny amount of work toward the new course. We are taking Cognitive and Affective Behaviors this semester. There is a TON of reading to do and the new teacher wants us to write all the reports in the format of Bloom’s Taxonomy. This means that we need to include information to show we learning ability in formal knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and conclusion. Hehehe we’ll umm figure it out as we go by. I know it is going to make writing more difficult until I get into the swing of it, but I am actually looking forward to being able to do it. I would like to build Bloom’s educational style more into the objectives of the program. I know that when the other center came over to look at what we were doing, it was a selling point.
I know this course is going to be harder than the last. It is going to require more phenomenological studies. Basically, I interpret this to mean we are going to be dealing with concepts I can not see. The first paper has us studying whether emotions are a cognitive process. Yeeks.
I started last night and finished this morning working on a conversion project. There are six required readings on top of reading the first chapter in our text. I had to search out where the other stuff was at the library. I’d like to think I’m getting the hang of using that resource, but I didn’t go to the library all last semester. It had been more important to look out on the Internet for my resources. The on-line library is great! The school has some deal to share the library at Johns Hopkins University. Top notch school! The conversion part was that all the articles (from 3-40 pages each) were in PDA. I’ve probably mentioned before, but I have this super duper program that I had at work and installed at home yesterday that turns PDF programs into exact replicas in a Word document, except I am then able to manipulate the information by adding comments and using different color highlighers. I am just thrilled to death with this perk. It fits right into my systemic thinking.
I have to concentrate on time though … there is a lot more reading and it is difficult. This is the stuff we got to go through this week.
Carver, C.S. (2001). Affect and the functional bases of behavior: On the dimensional structure of affective experience. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5, 345-356.
Clore, G.L., & Ortony, A. (2000). Cognition in emotion: Always, sometimes, or never? Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion. NY: Oxford University Press.
Lane, L. Nadel, G.L. Ahern, J.J.B. Allen, A.W. Kaszniak, S.Z. Rapcsak, & G.E. Schwartz (Eds.), Neural correlates of conscious emotional experience. Cognitive neuroscience of emotion (pp. 24-61). New York : Oxford University Press.
Green, D.P., & Salovey, P. (1999). In what sense is positive and negative affect independent? Psychological Science, 10, 304-306.
Izard, C. (1992). Basic emotions, relations among emotions, and emotion-cognition relations. Psychological Review, 99, 561-564.
Sternberg, R.J. (2003). Cognitive psychology (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. pp. 1-29.
Tellegen, A., Watson, D., & Clark, L.A. (1999). On the dimensional and hierarchical structure of affect. Psychological Science, 10, 297-303.
We’re in the process of trying to convince ourselves that we are smart enough for this. The class is being taught by a female. I think her name is Dr. Glazer. She doesn’t write so good … needs a better editing tool! I have to not disqualify her as being smart though, because she’s the teacher. Her work doesn’t seem to match the topic of the course though. There are 22 people in the course and there are more men than normal. There’s as usual a flock of PhD’ers and if that weren’t bad enough … there’s a lawyer in the course. YEEKS! Some he-men too hunters and fisherman … hehehe, but there is one guy who likes to do crocheting! Yayyyyyyyyyy!!!
I read ahead a little of the curriculum for the semester … there are 3 options for final work at the end of the semester. You can do a 25 page paper on your own, take from their format, or write a paper from an interview with a neuron-psychologist currently working at a University. Like Yah. I know plenty of them! I looked over the formatted stuff … that was kind of tricky … there are four sections of each and it seemed pretty hard, because it meant studying a bunch of stuff I wasn’t real interested in. Like on one section labeled creative, you had to use a fishing model (ship, mast, waves, etc.) to explain the brain. Thought um humm there’s a good use of brain power! YEEKS!
I’m really not sure which area I want to write our paper on, but it will be the first option where we do it on our own. With this option the requirement is to come up with a topic approved by instructor by the third week of the course. They don’t really let you dilly-dally around. The areas we have to choose between are basic cognitive psychology, neuroscience, attention and consciousness, perception, memory, knowledge, language, problem solving and creativity, decision-making, or human and artificial intelligence. Right now if I had to choose freely, I think I might try problem solving and creativity. But, then I would have to study something specific in that area.
Hmmm… That part has me stumped. Maybe I’m going to need reading that chapter ahead of time. I know last time I was pretty overwhelmed about the 4th week, but that was also because I had tried to take two courses that semester. Not a good idea.
AHA! We’re getting along in the day … Chief is taking a break from his nappin “NAP BREAK!!!” YAYYY! That be V’s buddy J
*Sigh* we’ve moved beyond now into interest, yet confused state. We’re thinking after skimming around the book for a while, we’d like to do something with knowledge through schemas and scripts and if possible with people who have mental retardation. Have to read a little further. Hold on …
We took a break … talked to V for a min., read our mail, and ate more Chinese! It’s about 1 pm now … fraid we’re losing this day. So much to do. Shoot, shoot. Think I’m into it knee-deep ... no Missy … not a good time to visit!
*Sigh* Suppose there is no time like the present! Man oh man there’s soo much to do with kitties during the day just can’t imagine how you all get hubbies and children done! And, some of you are artists and poets! Just not enough time in the day!
Ok, thinking here … somehow it got to be already 1:45. Going to need to rethink some logic in scheduling … this is out of control … now its 2:15 … where’s the logic!?? Last point we were concerned with giving V a new IM superbuddy to look at. Hmm, think we’re regressing.
Ok, ok…
V’s gone off to the shower … OBVIOUSLY real work will happen now! I’m starting to think I have problems focusing. Lights not too good here now … shoot, anymore complaining???
Ok ok
Now we’re up to I need a boyfriend with a yacht picture. CLEARLY, I said, we’re going to FOCUS!!!
Hey, Hey!!! Are you listening out there?
How do you know when you’ve really gone off the deep end? Do they always come and get you with big butterfly nets??? Does it hurt? Is it easier than reading? I know … we’re going outside! Sure, sure … we’re going to take the book with … HEAVEN FORBID, I get behind!!! Be back in a bit! Umm that didn’t turn out to be such a good idea … Too breezy and bright! Pshwoo V’s Gone … done showered and out the door! NOW, we can get serious! Ok, what’s the plan? Hmm, let’s read 5 more pages into figuring out knowledge … that’s where we’d left off, because there’s a spilled rice stain on the page. *Sigh* THAT WAS TWO HOURS AGO.
Ok, ok … I sense a little tenseness. Where are you going with that? Whoops V. would say, even asking the question is keeping us away from our work. We’re going …
ACK! Now it’s a long time after ................. about 10 pm!
Did someone forget to go to bed!??? But … Hey … that was pretty good concentration …J Hmm I guess a day in the life. BED!!!
Next Morning …
Ok … this is cheating like because we look about the same, but it is actually around 6 am the next morning. We’ve been up for about an hour. You might be getting the idea that we never leave this computer … that would be a correct assumption. We got the email this morning though and discovered the ARC convention is Wednesday and Thursday. We won’t be staying at the hotel over night … It would be too expensive, because we still need to get money down for the Ohio trip in June for CARF.
Not too much time left for posting and there’s really not much new to say … slept in so late we missed our V-talk. *Shoot* Somebody’s really going to have to go to work this morning. Not looking forward to that. Really out of sync with what’s going on in that direction. Need more coffee!
I know … boss said at the time of the review … I need it cut too. That make us unhappy. Hmm, really not concentrating … lit two smokes. I know … go take a shower …
Thadda girl … your doing it got the routine down just fine. Ok … babe … let’s post this thingy and get out the door! I know you can do it! Oh shoes? Well, of course better take them with you on your feet! Pshwoo good thing you took your medicine already!
Have a good one!
posted by Ann Marie @ 4/03/2006 05:30:00 AM
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