(From the teacher)
You should view the several videos for each week and select one video to write about. For the video that you select for each week, you will be asked to do two things (be sure to identify the video you are responding to in the main topic of your posting):
1. Summarize the content of the video, relating the content to material presented in the text or in other class readings. Refer by name to the major individuals featured in the video.
2. Provide a personal reaction to the video. In your reaction, you may describe a personal experience of yours that is relevant to the content of the video, or you may describe how the video has helped you think about things in a new way or has failed to stimulate your thinking. I am looking for a readable, coherent essay that gets to the heart of the matter, that makes clear your beliefs, opinions, and/or criticisms, and that in general shows that you have taken the time to critically assess the information from the video. Thus, postings should be more than superfluous comments like “good job” and should make every attempt to incorporate course concepts and relate the brain to behavior.
It is recommended that you take notes during the viewing of the videos. These notes should help you compose your video reaction. At the end of the semester, the final topic of this video conference will ask for you to relate one of these clinical videos to a brain-behavior principle that helps us understand the functioning of the person (described more fully in the last main topic below).
Name of Video Below:
David Shenk: Nature, Nurture, and Genes—You Tube
Excellent interview of David Shenk on modern day view of nature-nurture via epigenetics
The below three videos deal with cartoonish graphic illustrations on very important concepts in genetics from a series called 23andME. Since we only have the supplementary reading on genetics (from Freberg under Reserved Readings) and the Carlson text does not adequately deal with these critical genetic concepts, these videos are very important. https://www.23andme.com/gen101/genes/ What are genes? https://www.23andme.com/gen101/origins/ Where do your genes come from https://www.23andme.com/gen101/phenotype/ What are phenotypes
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