Topics P.2
Claudia, Jacob
Jared, Vanessa, Blanca
Jasmine, Luis, Mary, Ruby
Harneet, Jade, Destiny, Richard
Impact of Horse-riding on Teens
Grandin claims that teens who work with horses can handle their problems better than teens that don't.
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
Emotional Abuse
Animal Intelligence
Nueroscience
Grandin claims that OCD has many connections with autism
Example, " Autism has a lot in common with OCD"
Another example, " I brought the saddle up to my room every day and I kept it with me" (Grandin 4)
Social Anxiety
Grandin claims school and social life was hard.
She explains, "Autism made school and social life hard, but it made animals easy" (Grandin 1)
Animal Behavior
Grandin claimed horses have gigantic behavior problems which define they are emotionally disturbed
She states " They'd been marked down because they had gigantic behavior problems. They were pretty, their legs were fine, but emotionally they were a mess." (Grandin 2)
Autism
Grandin is autistic, here described
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Autism made socialization difficult
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Grandin claims she better understands the horses with her autism because they were emotionally abused by their previous owners.
She states, "A bunch of emotionally disturbed teenagers living with a bunch of emotionally disturbed animals," (Grandin 2).
Autistic Savants
Grandin claims animals might be autistic savants.
She states, "animals have special talents normal people don't the same way autistic people have special talents not all people don't and at least some animals have special forms of genius normal people don't the same way some autistic savants have special forms of genius."
Ms. Fonseca's Examples
The link between autism and understanding animal behavior
Grandin claims she has a unique perspective on animals because of her autism.
She states, "Normal people never have the special talents animals have, so normal people don't know what to look for" (Grandin 8).
Therapeutic Animals (Animals helping emotionally disturbed people)
She states "Horses are a huge responsibility, so any teenage kid who's looking after a horse is developing good character" (Grandin 5)
Grandin claims that the animals help with peoples emotion because by riding horses it can make some one do better with their lives.
the evidence states "the love a teenager gets from a horse is good for him" ( 6)
Behaviorism
Laboratory Enviornments
Behavior Therapy
Positive Renforcement
Anthropormorphize
Negative Reinforcement
Negative reinforcement is a good thing
Grandin claims rewards an positive reinforcement are alike.
Grandin claims rewards an positive reinforcement are alike.
She explains "Something good happens to you because of something you did."
Grandin claims that people that didn't know what they were doing got more care than others.
She explains "Something good happens to you because of something you did."
Visual Illusions
Grandin claims that Anthropomorphizing was the worse thing you can do to an animal.
Animal Ethology
Psychology
Grandin states "he took a group of very young autistic kids and gave half of them got less intensive treatment" (Grandin 13).
She states " Total agreement that practically the worst thing anyone could possibly do was anthropomorphizing an animal" (Grandin 14)
Grandin claims that she was interested in studying visual illusions in animals.
She states" The only research I was interested in doing at Arizona State was studying visual illusions in animals. I'm sure I was interested in visual illusions because I'm a visual thinker.
Grandin claims that she has a good grounding in animal ethology.
Negative reinforcement isn't a punishment; its a reward. (Grandin 9)
Grandin states," In the end, I had pretty good grounding in animal thology from undergraduate college before I started graduate school at Arizona State University. It was a good thing I did, because Arizona State was a hotbed of behaviorism.
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Laboratory Experiments on Animals
Visual Thinking
Grandin states ''It took me a long time to figure out that I see things about animals other people don't. '' (Grandin 1)
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Grandin claims that Mr. Ross should have stuck to behaviorist principles and thought of Jason's environment instead of the psychology of Jason.
She states," If Mr. Ross had stuck to behaviorist principles and thought about Jason's environment instead of about his "psychology," he wouldn't have made this mistake."
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For example, "People want the equipment that I install, but don't realize that the environment is bad."
Stress
Circle of Life
Flight Stimulation Study
Grandin claims stress is not good for human and animal growth
Grandin claims that an animal kills another animal for food.
Grandin claims it was the scariest study
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