https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26 Made with my mother in mind en-us 2016-07-31 22:18:24 UTC 2023-06-14 06:09:58 UTC hello@padlet.com abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117252374 When you are new to driving, the roads can be a scary place, but how about your driveway combined with an angry mother? When I was a mere 16 years old, my parents bought me a brand new Ford Focus that was mustard yellow. Cool, I know, right? Every morning I would walk right past my mother's van, hop into my car and leave for school, but what if your mother wasn't parked next to you that morning? What if she parked right behind you and you didn't even notice you "walked right through the van" that morning? Well, that's exactly what I did, and a minute later, I had an angry mother. 

Because I had identified a pattern of my mother's car being parked next to mine in the garage every morning, I didn't even realize that it was parked right behind me and when backing out of the garage, I bet you can imagine what happened. Needless to say, I didn't drive my car for many weeks following.]]> 2016-07-31 22:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117252374 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117254538 When becoming a teenager, it is likely that you will get on your parents nerves, but when you become a parent, you're supposed to be calm, cool and collected all of the time, right? Well, as you've already read, it's easy for me to upset my mother, and somehow, most things seem to be my fault. 

When considering my mother's central capacity, it is safe to say that many limitations occur. Though she thinks that she can multi-task, she is extremely poor at doing so, which explains why I have a scar above my eyebrow. 

When I was younger I was extremely into sports, especially basketball, and my mother would travel with me near and far to play in various tournaments, but there is one tournament that I remember not because we won, but because my face has been changed forever due to it. 

Talking on your cell phone, listening to the weather and a complaining daughter, as well as holding a second place trophy should be easy tasks to perform all at once, right? Wrong! Due to my mother's limited attention capacity, as well as the structural interference she was facing, I got a trophy right to forehead, and somehow still go yelled at for it! Structural interference occurs when physical structures are the source of decrement and with my mother trying to talk on her cell phone while trying to also hold a trophy in the same hand did not go well for either of us. She was also experiencing capacity interference due to a limitation in central capacity. As she was trying to pay attention to a million different things, and hold a trophy and a cell phone in one hand, the trophy fell and hit me right on the forehead, producing a scar. Now, I am known as The Girl Who Lived--Through a long car ride home with an angry mother (but at least she got her van fixed)!


]]> 2016-07-31 22:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117254538 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117256239 I'm not sure if you have figured this out yet, but I am very good at upsetting my mother (If only she could read this; I bet she would be thrilled)! When considering Gentile's Two-Dimensional Classification System, I'm sure I could think of multiple examples in which the function of the action and the environmental context combined to help me anger my mother, but one example specifically comes to mind. 

When you have a mother that likes her house to be spotless at every instant of every day, you do not leave things lying around. I repeat, YOU DO NOT LEAVE THINGS LYING AROUND. But instead of listening, that's exactly what I decided to do because though my mother had asked me to put my shoes away before folding the laundry, I thought to myself 'No! This will someday make a great example of Gentile's Two-Dimensional Classification System'! 

When considering what Gentile describes as Function of the action, the performer's bodily actions can be classified in one of two ways. The first being body transport, referring to whether a person must change location while performing a skill, or body stability, where the performance of a skill requires no change in location. Furthermore, we must take into considering the environmental context. A performer experiences regulatory conditions, where the elements in the environment influence the movements made. These regulatory conditions can either be stationary or moving. Environmental context also takes into consideration the intertribal variability, which helps to determine whether the regulatory conditions will remain the same or change from one trial to the next.

When considering function and environmental context, I performed with body transport (walking while carrying the laundry), there was object manipulation because I was carrying the laundry as I already mentioned, the regulatory conditions were stationary because the shoes that I ultimately tripped over were not moving (but were in my path) and there would be intertrial variability because I would perform differently and not trip over my shoes. 

Moral of the story, I tripped over my shoes and broke my permanent front tooth, all because I hadn't listened to my mother. Let's just say my appearance was taking a fall, with a scar on my head and only one front tooth!

]]> 2016-07-31 23:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117256239 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117257496 Enough about my Mom, let's talk about my Mom's Mom! When considering coordinated movements, reaching and grasping is extremely important to make a purposeful movement. To reach and grasp something consists of three components: first, transport. The limb must move from the start position, to the location of the target (in this case, the target is what my grandmother thought was a telephone--that was really a water bottle, that was sitting on her night stand next to her bed). The next component in the reaching and grasping sequence is grasp: the hand is opened during the transport phase and will close down on the target when it reaches the appropriate position. Lastly, manipulation--The object will be moved after it is grasped in order to make a purposeful movement and complete the task. In this case, my grandmother heard the phone ring and went to move her hand to reach for her telephone, grasped what she thought was her telephone and moved it towards her ear to talk, but instead grabbed a full bottle of water and put it up to her ear and started talking, but got no response. Had she placed her hand a foot to her right, she would have made a purposeful movement and grasped her telephone, but instead, I got a good laugh. No one can be upset with me this time!]]> 2016-07-31 23:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117257496 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117258075 When considering bimanual coordination, asymmetric bimanual coordination is important when performing various activities of daily living, but when it came to my ADL's, they consisted of playing guitar hero and playing guitar hero. When I was younger, I was so obsessed with playing guitar hero that I could even play Guns N' Roses Sweet Child O' Mine with my eyes closed, on the level expert--This shows you how much time I spent outside when I was about 12. When playing the guitar, your left and right hand must both make extremely different movement patterns at the same time to play successfully, and I was extremely good at utilizing my asymmetric bimanual coordination to play this song on expert level. What a sweet child I was!]]> 2016-07-31 23:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117258075 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117259044 One thing I thoroughly enjoyed about high school was softball. I was extremely good at it, receiving first-team all conference honors my sophomore, junior, and senior years of high school, but to be good at softball, you have to first go through the stages of learning. First, the Cognitive stage. I had to figure out a good strategy to, for example, field a ball properly (playing second base) and discard improper strategies. Though my gains in level of performance were large at first, my performance level of inconsistent. Becoming older, and having had more practice, I was able to move into the Associative stage by determining the most effective strategy to keep my fielding errors low and make gradual improvements. Finally, I moved into the Autonomous Stage and the movements that were required to field a ball became automatic to me and that's how I was able to gain first-team all conference honors three years in a row. Though my Mom won't admit it, she misses watching me play softball and wishes she were busy every Tuesday Thursday nights again!]]> 2016-08-01 00:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117259044 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117259455 In high school, I not only played softball, but I also played volleyball and basketball. Talk about a busy Mother! When considering my basketball skills, I was never very good at doing anything with my left hand, but to be a point guard (as I had wished to be), I had to be proficient using both my right and left hands. When I was young and trying to learn the skills I could perform with my right hand, with my left hand, I would have my Mom stand in the driveway as a defender and I would dribble around her with my left hand. When considering bilateral transfer, it is defined as the transfer of learning that relates to the same task, but with the contralateral limb. When learning to shoot a lay-up with my left hand, the many trials I practiced with my right had provided positive transfer and allowed me to perform the a lay-up with my left, and having had more practice with various skills, I was able to become extremely proficient when using my left hand, and I can attribute it to positive bilateral transfer! ]]> 2016-08-01 00:14:15 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117259455 abigaylewellnitz https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117260509 When considering Performance outcome and measure of latency, reaction time is the time from onset of a suddenly presented and unanticipated signal to the initiation of a response. A subcomponent of reaction time is known as simple reaction time. Simple reaction time is measured when there is only one stimulus and one response. 

Again when I was younger and driving my car home in a snow storm from my friend's house, my reaction time was tested and was very slow. A deer (the stimulus) ran in front of my car unexpectedly, and I had to initiate a response. Unlucky enough for me, my reaction time (or the initiation of a response) was too slow and I hit the deer, causing a lot of damage to the hood of my car. As if hitting my Mom's van wasn't enough, I hit a deer as well. It was not a great first year behind the wheel! ]]> 2016-08-01 00:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/abigaylewellnitz/w3l8frtnmx26/wish/117260509