Random Country Statistics
Based on the statistics, I would pick to live in country P. The first reason i would go there because it has the second highest life expectancy. I would have picked A, but because 91.6% of its population are urban. To me that is a little too high for my liking. In country P, I also like that there are not too many farms. I think that it would be annoying to have a farmer as your neighbor. On education, it seems that country P values it moderately compare to the others. Overall country P, in every category its numbers are pretty average compare to the others and that is why I want to live there.
Response: Sweet!! France!!!
emotional scavenger hunt
1) Robert Plutchik was professor emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct professor at the University of South Florida. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and he was also a psychologist. He is known for his wheel of emotions. Which is an infograph that uses the color wheel to illustrate variations in human affect and the relationship among emotions.
2) He is saying that basically there are 8 emotions that help with survival.
3) postulate-a thing suggested or assumed as true as the basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.
4) emotions evolved from various forms of expression in different species and it serves as an adaptive role in helping organisms deal with key survival issues posed by the environment. hypothetical construct are idealized states whose properties and characteristics can only be inferred from various kinds of evidence.
5)there are 8 basic emotions. anger, fear, disgust, surprise, anticipation, trust, and joy.
6) primary dyads -combination of emotions that are often felt. joy+trust=love
7) secondary dyads- combination of emotions that are sometimes felt. joy+fear=guilty
8)tertiary dyads- combination of emotions that that are seldom felt. anger+trust=dominance
9)
| Stimulus Event | Cognition/Interpretation | Feeling State | Overt Behavior | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Threat | ‘Danger’ | Fear | Escape | Safety |
| Obstacle | ‘Enemy’ | Anger | Attack | Destroy Obstacle |
| Gain of Valued Object | ‘Possess’ | Joy | Retain or Repeat | Gain Resources or New Genes |
| Loss of Valued Object | ‘Abandonment’ | Sadness | Cry | Reattach with Lost Object |
| Member of One’s Group | ‘Friend’ | Acceptance | Groom | Mutual Support |
| Unwanted object | ‘Poison’ | Disgust | Vomit | Eject Poison |
| New Territory | ‘Examine’ | Expectation | Map | Knowledge of Territory |
| Unexpected Event | ‘What is it?’ | Surprise | Stop | Gain Time to Orient |
10) the color variation represents the intensity of the emotion. the darker it is the more intense the emotion.
11) I think that fear+disgust can = shame, but depending on the situation, it can also = hate. fear and anger are not equally opposites because I think that it’s possible to feel both at the same time. for example, if some one blackmail you, you get angry at that person, but your afraid of what he will do at the same time.
12) The wheel of emotion can be used in human science to study human behavior and human nature.
Langauge
1) “Man is the animal that speaks. Understanding language is thus the key to understanding man” – Thomas Szasz
this quote is saying that man are animals, but once we understand each other’s language there will be more peace.
2)EMOTION: Does the way you describe something affect how you feel about it?
yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVR9RIOkFCA
as the burger is been described you can really feel the love for the burger.
3)Questions:
1. How much could you know about the world if you had no language or means of communicating with other people?
l believe that your knowledge of the world would be very limited to the area you are in. Knowledge would most likely be obtained through the five senses.
2. What are some examples of words that have entered the English language as a result of the computer revolution?
Internet, Ethernet, Java, Bluetooth, Hypertext, Touchscreen.
3. Try to define as precisely as possible these words: a. triangle b. love c. table What is the difference? Which was easiest to define?
Triangle: A shape made up of three straight lines, with three points.
Love: An emotional bond to another person.
Table: A raised, usually flat surface made for placing items while the user either sits or stands.
4. How would you try to explain to a blind person what the word RED means? What does this suggest to you about the limitations of definitions?
This is a very difficult thing to explain because colors are not in any way perceivable without a sense of sight. It is something you cannot describe in language.
5. To what extent is your use of languages accompanied by images? Does every word conjure up an image or only some of them?
Language is often accompanied by images even when its not necessary. People send emoji pictures in texts to make the conversation more personal.Words themselves can make us think of pictures, but usually not. This can be a rare occurrence.
6. Do you think a robot (or Siri) could use and respond appropriately to language? What differences would it make in real life if that were the case?
No, Siri is not to the level of sophistication to respond in an appropriate way to speaking in different ways. For example, people from Maine will speak differently from people in Hawaii but Siri will always respond the same way. Same for differences in the user’s language level of formality.
7. Do you think communication would be improved if we got rid of vague words? DO you think vague or ambiguous words sometimes serve a purpose?
No, it would not improve communication if we gt rid of vague words. vague words are used because we don’t know how to explain certain actions.
8. Many jokes are based on ambuguity…can you give an example?
“A good life depends on a liver.”
10. Birds fly and planes fly. Since fish swim, why don’t we say that submarines also swim? What do submarines do?
Submarines are machines operated by humans so it cant swim. submarines dive underwater.
18. In 1947 the U.S. Department of War was renamed the Department of Defense. Do you think this makes a difference? Explain.
the word war make it seem like that it focused on fighting others, with the word defense it makes it seem that we a at threat so we need that department.
This I Believe Video
Liar Liar Cheat
1) it was easier to place cards that had to do with moral or had negative effects on others. It was hard to place cards that seemed kind of out of place like pulling a rabit out of a hat.
2)Overall everyone’s card order was pretty different from ours.
3)Yes. some cards seem to make no sense to my group so we were unsure where to place it.
4) Im not really sure. But i know that i have done some of the things said on the cards.
5)I think that deception is everwhere. everyone has lied sometime during their life time and lying is a part of us. its a small part of who we are as human beings.
6) a lie is withholding truth from someone. the card about pulling a rabbit out of a had is not a lie because it’s just a trick.
7) i think that it’s okay to lie, if it’s to prevent someone from getting hurt or to protect your friends and family members.
TOK and the Knower: Belief Unit
“The creative mind fashions the world in which we live”
From reading this article, i find that i agree with most of the statements said by Mr.blackmon. from reading it, it seemed to me that Mr. Blackmon is saying that knowledge is almost like an living organism. it’s constantly growing and changing as time goes by. the people are like the parents. we are shaping knowledge as we learn and understand more about ourselves and our surrounding.
Vid2: in this video, big companies like the tobacco company, they put doubt into people’s minds so that they will continue smoking. basically a fact does not have to be proven true, you just have to make the people doubt the fact so that they question and second guess themselves.
1) 1. Cheerios: In 1999, the FDA allowed Marketers to make unprecedented claims about the power of whole-grain foods to cut heart disease, based on its review of scientific research. General Mills, meanwhile, has funded Cheerios-specific research, and most recently published a 2003 study showing that if women eat two bowls a day, they can reduce their total cholesterol by 4 percent. A press release (not the study itself) concludes that Cheerios could save 24,000 lives per year, “if everybody in America ate Cheerios as recommended.” Interesting extrapolation: 280 million Americans times 2 bowls times 365 days equals 204 billion bowls of Cheerios per year. Healthy indeed.
Part II:
what counts as “justification”? – proven facts based on results of experimentation.
where does belief end and knowledge begin?- belief ends when that belief has been proven correct and the correct fact is the beginning of knowledge.
what is the difference between BELIEF and OPINION?- belief are like principals one follows, while opinion is one feed back on a certain topic.
does believing in something make it true?- no, believing in something does not make it true, because little kids believe in Santa Clause and he is not real.
how do our core beliefs shape us as a person?- it’s the bases of one’s knowledge. people base their thinking around their own beliefs.
Q1: Do you think we should respect the beliefs of a racist or sexist person?
personally, i think its up to each individual to decide. i honestly would not care what they think as long as they keep to themselves and do not enforce their beliefs to others because everyone has their own beliefs and its theirs alone.
Q2: Find some examples of beliefs (modern or throughout History) that you think are both misguided and dangerous.
Hitler that that the German race was a better culture and Jews are bad.
white people are superior to black people.
This I Believe
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19089420
An Optimistic View of the World
by DAN TANI
In this essay Dan talked about how his optimism is rooted in two very different ideas: statistical probability and trust. he supports this by giving his own opinion for statistical trust and reasons for trust. for example:
Dan says, “I accept the statistical probability that I am not likely to be killed by a terrorist or contract some horrible disease. It’s not that I think that everything will work out OK; it’s that I think that everything will probably work out OK.” For trust he says that he learn it from his mother and gave a little story about her, saying that she is a little too trusting.
he is optimistic because of the things he sees out in space. he sees that earth as a whole is beautiful and stunning. but see also knows that on a smaller scale earth is a place where people are in pain and are dying from wars and diseases. but because he is up in space he can only see the whole of earth.
the brain part 2 video
Not sure if it works.
Knowledge and the Search for truth
pg 90.
Q1: In the book Lord of the flies by William Golding, the author chose civilization vs savagery as the main topic.
Q2: The topic emphasized that in a civilization you could either follow the rules and live peacefully with each other or act violently to obtain dominance over others, and enforce one’s will. This was shown through the antagonist Ralph who looked out for the whole group and the protagonist Jack who used violence and trickery to obtain leadership and he used that power to control everyone.
Q3: Golding uses descriptive language to set the mood of the scene and captures the readers interests. for example on page 196, “What was to be done, then? The tree? Burst the line like a boar? Either way the choice was terrible.” This choppy and brief language helps to convey the frantic mood of this scene.
Q4: the book was written by William Golding. i guess the purpose of this work is to show that civilizations can be corrupt and that there is no perfect civilization.
Q2b: Gutenberg Parenthesis is a belief that knowledge was formed orally and, now, in this post-Gutenberg era, knowledge is formed—increasingly—through “secondary orality” on the Internet. Thomas Pettit thinks that books are just words on fancy paper and it doesn’t have to be true because it looks good. i believe that books to some degree are important. not all books are informative and full of facts. some are just fun to read. while other you read to learn and obtain useful info. books do hold meaning because its a way for others to express their thoughts and creativity. i guess i obtain most of my knowledge from school, friends, the internet, and from all the books i have read.
pg91
there are different words for “to know” in other languages because there are many different uses of that word figuratively and literally. the constraint of English is that we only have that one form and have to fit everything around that.
pg 92-3
1)introduction- when you hear or see something new that you don’t know.
2)learning-going to school and reading to obtain info.
3/4)reaching knowledge-researching for more information.
5)fully arrived and absorbed the knowledge-understanding how to solve a mat problem.
E)Experimental knowledge-catching fish, reading and talking to others.
procedural knowledge- learning how to play soccer, learning how to drive a car and learning to walk.
Knowledge Claims-belief in god,
F)sense of perception would be most relevant with knowing through direct experience- when you meet someone you use your sense of perception to judge the person in front of you.
reasoning would be most relevant with procedural knowledge- solving math problems
Language and and emotion would be most relevant with knowledge claims- trying to make someone see or believe in something.
G) ” I’v heard about that”- i guess i would place it in knowledge through experience because it could be something that you heard in person.
i think that Cognitivism best applies to the IB program because “the mind and thought process is put at the centre of the learning process. Within cognitivism, a clear distinction between knowledge, skills and attitudes is made and sharpened.” (Joitske Hulsebosch).
Social constructivism was the one that i found most helpful because i believe that working together with others improve ones learning ability.
I) long term memory-“the final stage of the dual memory model proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin, in which data can be stored for long periods of time. While short-term and working memory persists for only about 20 to 30 seconds, information can remain in long term memory indefinitely.” (Wiki)
Pg 100-103
Coherence-Demands the harmonious fitting together of all the knowledge claims without contradiction. sometimes people are too stubborn and wont listen to anything but their own belief.
Correspondence-demands that the knowledge claim actually match or correspond to what really happens the world. information can be manipulated and contains bias.
Pragmatic-used in accepting assumptions.
Pg 104-5
1) Sincere- saying what one truly believes.
been right- been proven to be true.
when making a false statement, you believe that the fact is truth, lying is when you know that the fact are false.
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