https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2 8 Concepts Explained Through Illustrations en-us 2018-08-05 20:38:06 UTC 2018-08-05 22:33:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Basketball.png qawi https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272001046 The summer of 2017 was an interesting time. I tore my ACL during my Freshman year of college, and I had to go back to my hometown (Racine) and heal. I turned 19 on June 27th, and I noticed something... I still couldn't drive. I did not get a license all of high school because the driving school was not included into our public school system. This means that you would have to go to a driver's school business, and those cost $400 to take. Because of my socioeconomic background, there were many other things that needed to be paid for. I was waiting until I turned 18, but I am in a diversity program, and I had to take summer classes. I had to wait until I was 19, and that is what I did. 

When I began to heal from my surgery, I started to study for the written test, and I started to practice driving. One time, my friend named Ogo came to visit Racine, and he let me practice driving in the car he was using. All of my friends decide they wanted frozen yogurt, and this was my time to practice driving in heavy traffic. We started driving and my friends were playing music loudly and yelling at each other, and for some reason I was having issues focusing. I now learned why. Based on the theory of attention, we have a fixed attention capacity. You can perform several tasks as long as the resource capacity limits not exceeded. Essentially, you have only a certain amount of attention before one of the tasks start to lack. As a new driver, I was focusing on driving, and focused on my friends being loud in the back. I approached a stoplight which was red. I was turning red, but my attention capacity may have been exceeded. I began the stages of information processing while pulling up to the light. Stimulus identification began when I saw the red light. The response was to break and wait for the cars to pass. The response programming was to press the brakes, but there was an interference, and I kept creeping to turn right. I kept driving and missed two cars coming to my left, but I kept driving and I sped up to avoid an accident. I was trying to find the reason I didn't respond the way I was trying to, but my stages of information processing was interfered with and my attention capacity  was reached, therefore I did the task wrong. ]]> 2018-08-05 20:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272001046 qawi https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272002123 When I was young, I loved sports, and I wanted to try baseball. I could pitch well, but I had to learn how to hit. My neighbor began to teach me because he was really good at baseball.

We practiced in my backyard and we started practicing. I was new to baseball, so he started to pitch to me underhand. This strategy is called a part-task strategy, and this specifically is called simplification. He reduced the difficulty of the skill so I can learn how to do it correctly. I have solid hand-eye coordination so that became to easy. He began to overhand pitch and I could not hit one ball. I was swinging really hard hoping to knock one out of my backyard, but I did not realize at that age that there is a speed-accuracy trade-off.  Being successful at hitting the ball required two types of anticipation.  First there is receptor anticipation, which is the ability to accurately anticipate how long it is going to take the ball to arrive at home plate.  The second is effector aniticipation, which is being able to accurately anticipate how long it is going to take you to move the bat to the target location. I could not anticipate when the ball was coming, and because I was swinging so fast, my accuracy was off way off. 

That day, I quit baseball forever.

]]> 2018-08-05 21:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272002123 qawi https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272002999 I want to tell a a couple of stories about how I hurt myself doing the simplest thing. I may be the clumsiest guy you will meet. I hurt myself doing tasks you should not hurt yourself doing.

The first story is about me stabbing myself while putting up dishes. I clean my house more than both of my roommates combined, and I began to clean this night again. We have a dishwasher and I was putting up clean dishes that were in the dishwasher. I was performing a reach and grasp task, where I reached, grabbed, and manipulated dishes to put them up easily. For some reason, one of my roommates put a knife in with the sharp end up. I went to grab it and I didn't notice the extrinsic object properties about the knife (it being upside down) and I jammed my hand into it. Boy did that hurt.

The second story is when I sprained my ankle walking down the sidewalk. In Madison, the sidewalks are weirdly thin. Also, people are rude and never make space. I was walking to class second semester (2018), and a group of three girls were walking towards me. I thought "should I move?" and of course I did.  I moved to the left and they made no space, so I had to get onto the grass. I have a usual motor program for walking on flat surfaces. The surface I began to walk on was rocky and uneven, and I did not have the right adaptions to walk efficiently on the uneven ground. I was introduced to a new motor program which I needed to learn how to do, and I sprained my ankle. I stepped on an edge and my ankle went horizontal, resulting in an instant sprain. I know it sounds weird, and you're probably thinking "you never walked on an uneven surface before?" Yes, I have reader, but every time I hurt my ankle because I don't have a motor program for it. Let me live in my clumsy ways.

]]> 2018-08-05 21:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272002999 qawi https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272004395 After my first surgery, I was 6'4" and I could not dunk. I was ashamed and needed to learn soon. My dad decided to help and I decided to research myself. I had to learn how to dunk. I tried to jump and grab rim, which I could do. Then I used a volleyball, which I could do. I finally worked to use a basketball. From the video, you can see me and my difficulty getting the ball into the rim. I kept practicing and began to learn! The rate of improvement started to increase, my limb movement began to work together and smoothly, I started to use my legs more, and my energy started to be used efficiently. Also, I could sense my errors and respond accordingly. I began to jump higher and dunk harder, and the dunks looked smoother. I wish I could upload videos of my dunks now, but I cannot. If you want to see them, come play me one on one!


After learning how to dunk, I had to learn how to do it with my left hand. Bilateral transfer was the perfect way to do so. I kept practicing dunking with my right hand, and learning the mechanics of dunking. Next, I transferred the skill to my left hand. This meant I had to jump off of my right leg and dunk with my left foot. I could barely do it, but the more I practiced, I began to start making my dunks.   I believe it is because of motor control. Because I already had a motor program for dunking with my right hand, it positively transferred to my left hand. In fairness, I can't dunk on people with my left hand, but believe that I can throw down a pretty dunk with my left. Again, if you ever want to test my dunking skills, I'm at the SHELL every day around 5. ]]> 2018-08-05 22:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/qawi/bsmiwxel3eq2/wish/272004395