Pychology article essays

Pychology article essays The article that I chose was called, Old Brains Can Learn New Language Tricks. The person on which I explained this article to was my boyfriend. This article was very relevent to some of the concepts we learned about from the book. The concepts which this article was related to was in Chap 2 and 5. This artical was relevent to what we learned about neurons, how they receive messages and the action potential. It was also very relevant to Learning which is in Chap 5, and about the two types of conditioning. This particular article was explaining how native Japenese speakers have only one phonetic category for similar sound. Native speakers become hopelessley confused when they hear words that begin with the letters R and L. Therefore, the challenge for the Researchers in this article, was to teach native speakers of Japanese to hear the difference between L and R reliably after just one hour of training. The subjects, all of whom had great trouble with the letters before train ing, used the computer for three 20-minute sessions. After one hour, they could clearly distinguish the difference between L and R. I didnt find it very difficult to get my boyfriend to understand the article. He actually found it to be quite interesting. Once I began explaining to him about the neurons and how they receive messages from other neurons, he became a bit confused. However, he understood the learning process and the two types of conditioning there is a bit quicker. Overall, he did seem interested about the article and I actually thought it was interesting also. I think he learned a little bit more about neurons and how they send messages and he actually mentioned to me that he felt like he learned a little bit more after I explained everything to him. After explaining all the concepts from the book that were relavent to the article I felt like I also learned more. I ...