RISK
Dr. Gabrieli http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/vision-i
Dr. Gabrieli http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-00sc-introduction-to-psychology-fall-2011/vision-ii
Dr. Zimbardo http://www.learner.org/series/discoveringpsychology/07/e07expand.html
Part 1) Sensory Deprivation Exercise
I would like you to experience what it is like for people (particularly the elderly) to lose some of their sensory ability. It is a sensory deprivation exercise and, if possible, try and have someone help you with it. Be careful of the things you do while doing this exercise as your senses will not be as sharp as they normally are. DO NOT ENGAGE IN ACTVITIES THAT PUT YOU OR OTHERS AT RISK (e.g., DRIVING).
To alter your senses…..
Hearing – Place cotton balls in your ears to muffle sounds.
Vision – Place translucent plastic over the goggles (or glasses if you wear them) and secure with rubber bands or tape. Or look through a piece of translucent plastic.
Touch – Put on rubber or thin material gloves.
You can do one sense at a time if you are alone so that you have your other senses to help you. If you have a helper, do all the senses at the same time to get a perspective of what it is like to be elderly.
Try some everyday activities like reading or watching TV. Try picking up eating utensils with the gloves on.The assignment is to describe what the experience is like. What are your thoughts about your senses being altered? What are some of your feelings about it?

Please post responses to at least two of your classmates.
1 respond )>> For this week I chose to try and complete our weekly assignment/conference while having my senses impaired. So please, take note there may be a few mistakes hehehehe.
So I have inserted ear plugs, similar to the ones they give you on airplanes, I am using glasses with a vision altering plastic over them and wearing gloves to type.
First off, to listen to and really understand everything in the lecture notes and short videos I watched online. I had to have the volume turned all the way up, to a point where I had my kids come up and ask if everything was ok, and why I was it was so loud.
I found myself moving around in front of my computer screen to try and get a clearer picture of what I was reading and at times trying to make the letters bigger so it would be easier to read. That took a lot of my concentration away and I found I was reading and re reading the same paragraphs over and over. Not to mention trying to find the right setting.
Trying to type without having full sensation of the keyboard and it’s keys finally made me understand my dad a bit more and why he types like he is picking corn from from the keyboard. Not only does he have to take note and make sure he is choosing the right key, he also has impaired sensation of how many keys he has actually pressed. Not an easy task.
Eventually, going back to my normal senses I really understood how many difficulties losing your senses presents. I can see how it must be even harder when you slowly, start losing each one to a point where you don’t even notice until you go to renew your DL and are told you need glasses. But it would be horrific to all of a sudden partially lose all or anyone of our senses. Very interesting exercise.
2 respond) >>>For this week’s experiment was fascinating because it’s something I never considered during daily life for the past 29 years. For the first part of the experiment I spent a day with hockey gloves on to impair the sense of touch. I even got my girlfriend to brush my teeth for me, which is probably one of the most personally invasive activities we do on a daily basis. The simplest of tasks became difficult and small items such as using a key to open a door or turning on the television. My level of frustration rose throughout the day and even the act of petting my 9 month old puppy seemed more work than I wanted to bother. For the second day I spent the entire work day without my glasses on, which makes me border-line legally blind. I was especially surprised at how much more movement my day required, when you’re not able to see anything from a far. From looking at the time on a clock to being unable to determine the face of a co-worker, this we definitely a harsh lesson to learn. The loss of site was probably the more hindering of the two loss of senses, even though I was still able to roughly make out shapes and colors. With more than 1 billion people in the world disabled, as reported just today by the New York Times, it is so great that today the UN is hosting the first every General Assembly meeting to allow disabled individuals to contribute to the world economy. As Americans we encourage people with special needs to overcome barriers, while still much of the world pushes them aside and restricts them from learning their potential. This experiment showed me just how hard it is to work at overcoming a disability involving the use of touch or site. It definitely gave me more respect for those who do it on a daily basis, but just as important allowed me to empathize far more with disabled people. While it wasn’t the most academic task we’ve done, so far this week’s exercise was by far the most enriching for me as a person.
Part 2)
The following exercise is designed to assist you as you complete writing assignment #3, the research-supported essay.
First, please see the following url on scholarly, popular, and trade journals. Use the site to become familiar with these three types of publications:
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/scholarlyjournals.cfm#start
Then, answer the following questions:
Millennials are students born after 1980. Some observers have noted that millennials may have different learning styles from previous generations of students because of their exposure to technology and the Internet and because of other factors that characterize their upbringing.
-If you were to write a paper on the learning styles of millennial college students, what type of source do you think would provide the best information?
Book
Academic or scholarly journal
Newspaper
Popular magazine
Trade or commercial magazine
Public affairs magazine
Specialty magazine

Why? Please explain your answer in a couple of sentences.

-William Strauss and Neil Howe wrote the following book about the millennial generation:
http://www.amazon.com/Millennials-Rising-Next-Great-Generation/dp/0375707190

What might be one drawback to using this book as a source for a research paper on the learning styles of millennial students? Write a sentence or two explaining your answer.
Part3)
The following exercise continues our discussion of sources for a research-supported essay.

Examine the types of sources given at the following website http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/scholarlyjournals.cfm#start

What kind of a journal is QSR?

In order to acquire more information on QSR, you can search for it in Google. You can also examine the following article about millennials in QSR.
http://www2.qsrmagazine.com/articles/features/144/generation-1.phtml

2. If you were to write a research paper on millennials, would this be a good source to use? Perhaps the answer depends on the focus of your paper. Why or why not might this source be a reputable source for a paper on millennials? Please write a paragraph of 4-5 sentences in explaining your answer.

3. Please see the following article on millennials:
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=8&refresh=c04G1Jp2Fj50&EID=e9c5bff6-0afc-49a8-990e-e957d3a6d920&skip=&p=8

What kind of a journal does this article come from? Would this be a reputable source for an article on millennials? Why or why not? Please write a paragraph of 4-5 sentences in explaining your answer.

4. Please see the following article:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daveserchuk/2011/10/13/the-millennial-generation-has-occupied-wall-street/

What kind of a journal does this article come from? Would this be a reputable source for an article on millennials? Why or why not? Please write a paragraph of 4-5 sentences in explaining your answer.

5. What kind of a journal does this article come from? Would this be a reputable source for an article on millennials? Why or why not? Please write a paragraph of 4-5 sentences in explaining your answer.
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=707&issue_id=92005
Part4 ) The following exercise is designed to continue our discussions on scholarly, popular, and trade journals.
Examine the following screen capture of a journal article.
What kind of a journal is Human Systems Management?
If you were to write a research paper on the learning styles of millennials, would this be a good source to use? Why or why not might this source be a reputable source for a paper on millennials? Please write a paragraph of 4-5 sentences in explaining your answer.
Find this article through UMUC’s Information and Library Services OneSearch. It is available in full text. Download the article and examine it.
What is different about this article from the previous articles you saw in this week of conferences? Please identify at least three differences in your answer.

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Risks and Unknowns in Program Development

It has been said that no software development project ever got completed on time,  on budget, and delivered all of the functionality that had been promised to users.  (Some cynics argue that at best, you can’t even have “two out of three” of those… maybe one, if you’re lucky.)  Using a case study approach, research and examine a software development project, and see how it handled various risks. How did its managers deal with the “unknowns?  What kind of things were unknown, or maybe unknowable, at the start of the project?