been busy — Tuesday, May 22, 2007
I been busy with school. The chapter a day thing is hard on my brain. I fall asleep trying to read my chapter. There's all kinds of stuff based on how long children (infants ) look at pictures and things. And then people assume meanings from that. It's really hard for me to trust that. How do they really know what the child is thinking based on how long they look at pictures??????
Their assumptions may be true, I'm not saying it has to be bullshit. But if someon was trying to figure out what I was thining based on how long I looked at certain things,and then talked about it as fact; I'd have to say they were probablay full of shit. Granted, it may be easier to figure out what an infant is thinging than what I'm thinking, ( only sometimes, people can tell about exactly what I'm thinking by the look on my face ) But it's still hard for me to trust their statements as absolute, and proof of anything. It might just be proof they are aquiring more schemas, that thininking is going on, not necesarily proving that the child is actually thinking what they assume it to be. It may prove that the child is thining more about one thing than another, or it might be that the child just doesn't care enough to think about all the stuff the researther is trying to get them to think about. Maybe the child looks away to think, like pelple look up sometimes to think when someone asks them a question. The tendency to look away from the thing probiding the question that's in your head seems to be just as natuaral as looking at it. These people chose how long the baby looked at something to determine their thoughts about it, when it could have been the opposite.
Tomarrow is a new chapter of stuff to read, plus nutrition stuff, and other things. Lots of stuff, and a little time. Losses to deal with, griefs to get over. It should be an interesting summer. It was probably bad timeing to take this class. I didn't really think about that part when I signed up for it though.
