Blog Post #10

In chapter 9 I learned about all the parts of the brain involved in language processing. It’s pretty incredible how many parts work together to get what you want to say out of your mouth. The fact that there's five steps to something I used to think was so simple is very interesting. Without one of those steps nothing would come out like it was supposed to, or it might not even come out at all. Now that I know this I can understand a little better why people around me may have things such as speech impediments or similar things relating to the language process. One thing that I found interesting that wasn’t in the book, it was in the assignment, was that males are better at that type of thinking that females are. They had a graph showing that males had a better reaction time than females did when deciding whether a letter was just rotated or rotated and backwards.
When someone has a Creative intelligence they are able to think of new, productive ideas. They don’t necessarily score high on an intelligence test where there are right and wrong answers because what they are good at are the things where there are no answers at all. Just good ideas. I guess I would say that I am creative but only in certain ways. A lot of people think of creative people as artists and things like that, but that is not me. I’m not very creative when it comes to artistic ability. I am however in other areas, like in something simple like thinking of neat ways to show new information to someone. I can’t think of something specific right now because most of it is random creativity on my part. It usually comes out though in school projects and things like that where I have to think of a way to explain something difficult in an easy way. I think having creative intelligence is very helpful because it can set you apart from everyone else. It makes you unique. Although I have some creative intelligence I think I have emotional intelligence as well.
I learned about the different degrees of retardation in chapter 10. There was actually a few things that surprised me in this. One was the fact that someone with a mild case can still only obtain academic skills up to the 6th grade level, I thought it would be higher than that. I also never really thought about how the number of people with a mental disability can effect social security and even the death penalty. Now when I am around someone with such a disability I can hopefully understand a little better how much they can really understand about whats going on around them. I think this information could be helpful to a lot of people because I think people with mental retardation can be really discriminated against by other ignorant people you don’t understand them.