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Athletics and Painting: Individual Differences

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Athletics and Painting: Individual Differences

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Me and my boyfriend have very different abilities to do certain things. We both grew up playing sports, but despite that we have very different athletic abilities. He can jump higher, throw a ball harder, hit a baseball harder and farther, and runs much faster than me. This is all true even though I workout and run frequently and he never does either of those things. However, when it comes to fine motor tasks like painting, carving pumpkins, or even writing, I'm far better than him. I'm able to paint between the lines, carve details into pumpkins, and perfect my handwriting but he gets paint everywhere, makes his pumpkin carvings into blobs and his handwriting is illegible. This is because of individual differences between genders. Males are statistically better at things like sports while females are statistically better at fine motor skills. This explains why he has much better athletic skills even though I practice way more than he does. It also explains why I am better at fine motor skills because I do them much more than he does.

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Last winter, me and some of my friends decided to go ice fishing. But sitting in the cold for hours wasn't working out for me so since one of my friends brought ice skates, we decided to go ice skating. I use to skate a lot when I was younger because I had a pond in my back yard. Although I wasn't good at it, I learned how to properly ice skate and balance on the blades. When we went ice skating that winter, I hadn't skated for at least 5 years. However, because of procedural memory I could still do it, even though I still wasn't good at it. I had encoded the motor programming of how to skate when I was younger, so when I tried it again, that process was still there to allow me to balance and not fall flat on my face. Trace decay didn't happen because ice skating must have been stored in my long term memory instead of my short term memory.

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The Art of Carving Pumpkins: Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff

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The Art of Carving Pumpkins: Speed-Accuracy Tradeoff

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Halloween is my favorite holiday, especially when I get to carve pumpkins. I take great pride in making sure my pumpkin is perfect and better than the rest of my family. Because of this, I take lots of time to carve my pumpkin. In fact, this year it took me 30 minutes longer than everyone else to carve this beautiful hash-slinging slasher. The hardest part was cutting out his spatula because I didn't want to make it too thin and ruin my design. I had to use Fitts' Law of the speed-accuracy tradeoff in which I sacrificed speed for accuracy. I wanted to go slow and make sure my pumpkin carving was accurate to the picture I was copying instead of carving super fast and risk making a mistake that would compromise my pumpkin. In the back of the picture, you can kind of see my sister's pumpkin. It's likely you don't know what it is because she preferred to go fast when carving her pumpkin, causing her design to be less accurate and recognizable. This means that I was successful at being the best pumpkin carver in my family.

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School, Work, and Staying Healthy: Attention

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School, Work, and Staying Healthy: Attention

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Spring of 2021 was very stressful for me. I had to balance working 27.5 hours a week, going to school full time, and staying healthy. My typical day involved getting up early, attending class virtually, eating breakfast on the way to donate plasma, getting as much homework done as I could while making a healthy lunch, attending class again, going to work until 8, going to the gym for an hour, making a healthy dinner, and finally finishing my homework before going to bed. Clearly, I had a lot going on and a lot of activities to focus my attention on. At work, this was especially true. Somehow I was able to take this picture of me working but a lot of m time was spent checking in a patient but also being on the phone with schedulers or doctors in the department. I was able to do both tasks at once, but my performance in both tasks wasn't as good as it would be if I performed the tasks separately. This is because of both structural and capacity interference. I also experienced capacity interference throughout my day because I'd constantly be thinking about all the other stuff I had to do while I was doing something else.

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I've been playing volleyball since the 4th grade. All of my time was spent practicing and playing on hardwood floors, which included many bruised hips and floor burns. However, as I got older, school and off-season volleyball became a thing of the past. It was replaced by lots of sand volleyball and although it is the same sport, playing volleyball on wood floors and on sand can be very different. Preparing to serve on hardwood involved hitting the ball at the ground a couple times, but in sand I had to simply toss the ball up and serve. Jumping and running on sand is also much harder. But as I transferred from indoor volleyball to sand volleyball, I was able to perform to the same level. Well, almost to the same level because I can't jump on sand to save my life. This shows that positive transfer occurred. I took the skills I learned from volleyball growing up and was able to produce the same skills but on different terrain. I used the same skills and processing components, but with sand instead.